reebasaurus 's review for:

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

3.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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To quote tumblr user abbitha1108: “T Kingfisher books are like ‘Here's an average woman who is very relatable. She's going to experience The Horrors. There is at least one person who will experience The Horrors alongside her, as a treat. The Horrors change her as a person and also occasionally make her have a complete mental breakdown. Sometimes she goes to a coffee shop.’”

This book and the hollow places felt very similar to me because small town, coffee shop with WiFi, and

Portals and then dangerous beings and weird landscape inside the portals.

It is also very similar to a house with good bones minus the coffee shop bit lol. But the this one has the wise older lady. 

I liked the other two I mentioned by T Kingfisher better than this one, I read it pretty quick and it was definitely freaky, but it just didn’t hit the same. Could be I’m in a different reading place, but it’s also because it felt to similar to the other books and also I didn’t really like the narrator a ton. Some of the things she said and because it was in first person it’s makes it harder to read and then disagree the whole time. But!!! One of the themes of the book was how she didn’t trust

Anna and she didn’t trust the narrator of the green book,

so maybe we’re supposed to be like “hmmmm” about our narrator.

Also i definitely thought the grandma was gonna end up being the green book writer and through a series of somethings the twisted ones hated her