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A review by theinquisitxor
Sadie by Courtney Summers
5.0
Reread: May 2022. The Audiobook is amazing
I'm starting to think that one of my favorite genres is thriller and/or murder mystery. This was really good, but also dark and dealt with some very heavy topics. TW for: sexual assault, pedophilia, murder, physical assault, etc.
This is about 19 year old Sadie trying to track down her younger sister's killer. Our second point of view is West, a NRP radio podcaster who is in turn trying to find Sadie. I actually really liked the NPR style sections, which almost made me feel like I was reading a documentary and gives the reader a lot more insight into Sadie from outside sources. Sometimes I don't really like alternate media in books, but I really enjoyed this. It was also very quick to read.
Sadie's sections were superb. Her narration was perfect and getting inside her mind was very interesting. I also really liked how she has a stutter? I can count one other fictional character I have ever encountered that has a stutter and it's nice seeing something like that in fiction. So many characters speak so eloquently, which just isn't realistic, so when we get a character who has trouble speaking is very refreshing.
The mystery is so so good. Obviously it revolves around the homicide of Sadie's younger sister, but you find out that the mystery at the heart of the book is so much deeper and darker. The story does an excellent job of not revealing things too soon, and handles the topics in a really good way. The topics in this book are almost too dark to be YA, but the author handles them really well and helps fit them into the genre.
This book is also so highly rated on Goodreads!? at 4.18 which just goes to show how good it is. Definitely a quick read, but not necessarily an easy one.
I'm starting to think that one of my favorite genres is thriller and/or murder mystery. This was really good, but also dark and dealt with some very heavy topics. TW for: sexual assault, pedophilia, murder, physical assault, etc.
This is about 19 year old Sadie trying to track down her younger sister's killer. Our second point of view is West, a NRP radio podcaster who is in turn trying to find Sadie. I actually really liked the NPR style sections, which almost made me feel like I was reading a documentary and gives the reader a lot more insight into Sadie from outside sources. Sometimes I don't really like alternate media in books, but I really enjoyed this. It was also very quick to read.
Sadie's sections were superb. Her narration was perfect and getting inside her mind was very interesting. I also really liked how she has a stutter? I can count one other fictional character I have ever encountered that has a stutter and it's nice seeing something like that in fiction. So many characters speak so eloquently, which just isn't realistic, so when we get a character who has trouble speaking is very refreshing.
The mystery is so so good. Obviously it revolves around the homicide of Sadie's younger sister, but you find out that the mystery at the heart of the book is so much deeper and darker. The story does an excellent job of not revealing things too soon, and handles the topics in a really good way. The topics in this book are almost too dark to be YA, but the author handles them really well and helps fit them into the genre.
This book is also so highly rated on Goodreads!? at 4.18 which just goes to show how good it is. Definitely a quick read, but not necessarily an easy one.