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A review by thebookishmel
Sadie by Courtney Summers
4.0
definite TW for rape, murder, pedophilia
Sadie took me for one hell of a rollercoaster ride. Being told in a dual perspective, we follow Sadie as she’s searching for her sister’s killer, as well as the podcast as he’s searching for Sadie.
I listened to this on audiobook, and let me tell you that this is definitely the way to do it mostly for the podcast format. It makes it a lot easier to distinguish certain voices/characters better, and because there’s so many people involved, having it be a full cast did help tremendously for my understanding.
Overall, this is a really difficult book to consume in any format. If you can’t handle the intensity of what’s going on, or are easily triggered, definitely stay away from this because we really get to see the raw emotion that comes from Sadie in the search for her sister. And I think the audio format intensifies that because of how its read (a bonus!).
I think the reason why I’m docking it a star is because certain parts felt a bit dragged on and I lost focus, but also because the ending fell short for me. I do think that Summers did this with the intention of keeping it a little more open ended and not perfectly wrapping it up for the reader. But with that comes the fact that there’s this lack of closure for everyone involved. Stylistically, I get it. But as a reader, I want to know what happened in the end.
Intense novel, but so good.
Sadie took me for one hell of a rollercoaster ride. Being told in a dual perspective, we follow Sadie as she’s searching for her sister’s killer, as well as the podcast as he’s searching for Sadie.
I listened to this on audiobook, and let me tell you that this is definitely the way to do it mostly for the podcast format. It makes it a lot easier to distinguish certain voices/characters better, and because there’s so many people involved, having it be a full cast did help tremendously for my understanding.
Overall, this is a really difficult book to consume in any format. If you can’t handle the intensity of what’s going on, or are easily triggered, definitely stay away from this because we really get to see the raw emotion that comes from Sadie in the search for her sister. And I think the audio format intensifies that because of how its read (a bonus!).
I think the reason why I’m docking it a star is because certain parts felt a bit dragged on and I lost focus, but also because the ending fell short for me. I do think that Summers did this with the intention of keeping it a little more open ended and not perfectly wrapping it up for the reader. But with that comes the fact that there’s this lack of closure for everyone involved. Stylistically, I get it. But as a reader, I want to know what happened in the end.
Intense novel, but so good.