A review by haileyrt
Ward D by Freida McFadden

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This definitely was one of McFadden's decent but not incredible novels. I felt like even though it was interesting to get depth to Tegan and Jade's characters, I wish we got to learn more about Jade's story about why she is who she is, perhaps to redeem or find out why she is the way she is outside of her mom. Also I wish we learned more about why Jade really believes Tegan should be in the psych ward with her, instead of her mainly being portrayed as the victim of Jade's escapades and rebellion. I felt like some parts of the story towards the end were predictable, but there were some moments where I didn't see certain things coming. I did see there were certain parts of dialogue where there'd be an explanation or something like that to describe what happened, but sometimes it'd be unnecessary as either the scene or the context clues would give the clues or the story away themselves, and didn't really need to be explained or made obvious with dialogue. It definitely does help with reading slumps and reading McFadden's books do help whenever I have a slump, but it's understandable if some books put you in a slump. This book was a bit quicker and I did enjoy the shorter chapters.