A review by smixter88
Appetite for Innocence by Lucinda Berry

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Lucinda Berry has a beautifully disturbed mind and I absolutely love that. This books topic is absolutely disgusting and disturbing. I also love that she writes on topics that most people wouldn't touch. Her chapters are wonderfully short. Now, that all said, here's my review. 
This started as a solid five. She really set the scene for this book. The different characters had so much written into them. It was like there wasn't a MC, but there are. Her background characters mean just as much. In fact my favorite character wasn't any of the MCs. Then I get to over 65% though and it just starts to fall a little for me. It's like we were built up for all this horrific stuff, and then we just get shoved down the hill towards the end. Ok. Sure fine, maybe it was needed because the ending needs more attention. It honestly didn't need as much attention as it got. I felt like we read the same scene but a different location. I just felt we didn't need to be shoved for a long slow drawn out ending. At the end of the book, it's absolutely a three star for me. I don't regret reading it. It really was a good read, just areas I wasn't a huge fan of. 
As I say with all of her book, LOOK UP THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. She lays out several in this book like all of the others. Her books are not for everyone. 
New rating system 😁 
⭐️ could have been a DNF 10/10 don't recommend 
 ⭐️⭐️ It was meh
 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ it was good but had better potential 
 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ really liked it. Doesn't live rent free but comes to visit every now and then. 
 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Obsessed! It will live rent free in my head forever and always 

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