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A review by bookish_notes
First, Become Ashes by K.M. Szpara
1.0
The full review is posted on my blog.
After reading this entire book, I am still left asking the question, who is this book FOR?
This is without a doubt the most baffling book I’ve read to date and I just feel bad for the PR folks and the marketing team because this is the weirdest, non-marketable book I’ve read. There’s no clear message who this is for unless you just have all this extra time to see what all the hoopla is about. This book is just bad.
I feel like this is a contemporary story, no matter how much this book pretends it’s not. I’ll dive more into that later in this review.
There are trigger warnings included in the beginning of this book but I would include cult indoctrination/brainwashing, torture, self inflicted burns, violence, grooming children, and extremely graphic on-the-page rape and sexual abuse.
*****check the rest of my review on my blog. GR can’t handle a 4400 word review. oops.*****
***Thanks to the publisher for approving me for this ARC on NetGalley.***
After reading this entire book, I am still left asking the question, who is this book FOR?
This is without a doubt the most baffling book I’ve read to date and I just feel bad for the PR folks and the marketing team because this is the weirdest, non-marketable book I’ve read. There’s no clear message who this is for unless you just have all this extra time to see what all the hoopla is about. This book is just bad.
I feel like this is a contemporary story, no matter how much this book pretends it’s not. I’ll dive more into that later in this review.
There are trigger warnings included in the beginning of this book but I would include cult indoctrination/brainwashing, torture, self inflicted burns, violence, grooming children, and extremely graphic on-the-page rape and sexual abuse.
*****check the rest of my review on my blog. GR can’t handle a 4400 word review. oops.*****
***Thanks to the publisher for approving me for this ARC on NetGalley.***