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Sadie
by Courtney Summers
I listened to the podcast promo (I think? It came out a few weeks before the book and was only the first few episodes) a couple years ago when it first came out and fiiinally got the chance to read the book. So I was going into this with a couple years worth of hype build up.
And boy, did it pay off.
I really liked the dual POV/timeline and how we got bits and pieces of how Sadie's story would end from West's research. It was this cool balance of working backwards from what he knows in the future, and predicting what would happen/putting the pieces together as we follow Sadie.
I appreciated that you are never given the details of Mattie's murder. Because like... we know what happened to her. We KNOW. We don't need the gory details. And Sadie never says it either, she just says that he "did something to [her] sister."
The writing in SADIE was so good. Courtney Summers paints beautiful and vivid images of the towns that Sadie journeys to. Each character she meets is in the middle of their own story, so that even the characters she only interacts with for a few minutes feel well-rounded and fleshed out. I also really enjoyed the podcast transcripts. I was a little bit nervous going in (even though I had heard the episodes before), that the transcripts would feel disjointed/unrealistic, so I was pleased that they flowed beautifully with the rest of the book.
And boy, did it pay off.
I really liked the dual POV/timeline and how we got bits and pieces of how Sadie's story would end from West's research. It was this cool balance of working backwards from what he knows in the future, and predicting what would happen/putting the pieces together as we follow Sadie.
I appreciated that you are never given the details of Mattie's murder. Because like... we know what happened to her. We KNOW. We don't need the gory details. And Sadie never says it either, she just says that he "did something to [her] sister."
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We also aren't given the details of what Keith did to Sadie. We know what he did. Not having it be written out prevents it from being tragedy pornThe writing in SADIE was so good. Courtney Summers paints beautiful and vivid images of the towns that Sadie journeys to. Each character she meets is in the middle of their own story, so that even the characters she only interacts with for a few minutes feel well-rounded and fleshed out. I also really enjoyed the podcast transcripts. I was a little bit nervous going in (even though I had heard the episodes before), that the transcripts would feel disjointed/unrealistic, so I was pleased that they flowed beautifully with the rest of the book.