A review by devinjai6655
Little Stranger by Leigh Rivers

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

Look, I went into this not expecting a lot and I was still disappointed. Like, people love Malachi but idk, I just don't get it. I swear to god when he

couldnt say Olivia but he could sing the Itsy Bitsy Spider and say "waterspout"

I laughed.
I've read plenty of messed up stuff, but this was written like it was taken straight from Wattpad without an editor. It's just 200 pages of boring writing with some shock factor by what Malachi does to Olivia.

ALSO the dad was the only half decent character in this book. Def not perfect, but he tried. Mom legit

sold off her adopted daughter's virginity at 16 and continuously tried to marry Olivia off for her own monetary gain even a decade later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Incest, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Murder

So they're foster siblings, not blood related, but they call each other stuff like "older brother" and "little sister." Okay so the scene i mentioned above

he has her chained up in a basement, she's covered in dirt and spiderwebs, he's anally raping her, and his tarantula is crawling all over her while he sings the Itsy Bitsy Spider in her ear. At one point he burns her with his cigarette and burns his initials into her body.