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catherine_the_greatest 's review for:
Sadie
by Courtney Summers
I was enthralled through the entire book -- Sadie's mournful, revenge-focused narrative and West's podcast -- but didn't love the ending. (For more on the strengths & weakness of the plot, read any of the roughly 7,000, mostly glowing, reviews on GR.)
I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it's there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.
The contrast between the different, fictional* Colorado towns that Sadie & West visit was really interesting -- how darkness lurks in all of them, even when it's not so obvious, just like the darkness inside predatory men doesn't always show on the outside.
*I started searching up town names to see how far Sadie was traveling and found that most are completely made up, with the exception of Montgomery, which existed, but is much different from the perfect, upscale community depicted in the book.
Read for book club, May 2019.
I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it's there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.
The contrast between the different, fictional* Colorado towns that Sadie & West visit was really interesting -- how darkness lurks in all of them, even when it's not so obvious, just like the darkness inside predatory men doesn't always show on the outside.
*I started searching up town names to see how far Sadie was traveling and found that most are completely made up, with the exception of Montgomery, which existed, but is much different from the perfect, upscale community depicted in the book.
Read for book club, May 2019.