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ricarda_reads 's review for:
Play Nice
by Rachel Harrison
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Pre-read: I heard something about evil Polly Pocket and I need to find out what that means.
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Mhh, now I've read the whole thing and I still don't know what that means. Maybe I'm missing some integral knowledge because I never had a Polly Pocket house. I had a Polly Pocket jumbo jet that turned into a catwalk when you opened it up. (It was sick.) Anyway, the book was just ok. It worked as a story about a dysfunctional family with toxic parents and strong but complicated sister bonds. I liked reading from Clio's perspective, because it felt refreshing how she would always blurt out the bluntest things possible. But the horror really fell flat to me. It's just not enough when there's a demon in the house and all it ever does is annotating the book you're reading with funny little sentences. Ok, that's exaggerated, but the haunted house part really was so boring for the most part. Play Nice also has a book-inside-a-book situation and I rarely ever like that choice of narration in the first place and here it went on forever and really gave nothing. It's my first book by Rachel Harrison and now I'm not sure if she is an author for me. The horror was lackluster and while there was solid family drama, it's just not what I picked this book up for.
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Mhh, now I've read the whole thing and I still don't know what that means. Maybe I'm missing some integral knowledge because I never had a Polly Pocket house. I had a Polly Pocket jumbo jet that turned into a catwalk when you opened it up. (It was sick.) Anyway, the book was just ok. It worked as a story about a dysfunctional family with toxic parents and strong but complicated sister bonds. I liked reading from Clio's perspective, because it felt refreshing how she would always blurt out the bluntest things possible. But the horror really fell flat to me. It's just not enough when there's a demon in the house and all it ever does is annotating the book you're reading with funny little sentences. Ok, that's exaggerated, but the haunted house part really was so boring for the most part. Play Nice also has a book-inside-a-book situation and I rarely ever like that choice of narration in the first place and here it went on forever and really gave nothing. It's my first book by Rachel Harrison and now I'm not sure if she is an author for me. The horror was lackluster and while there was solid family drama, it's just not what I picked this book up for.