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bookishmillennial 's review for:
Last Girl Breathing
by Court Stevens
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
For a young adult thriller, I was expecting something a bit more fast-paced, exciting, and a lot more tension! I had high hopes for this and it just didn’t live up to my expectations.
I thought there was too much telling/exposition, especially for the context of our main character Lucy’s relationships with all of the deceased. I felt like the middle part (40-70%) dragged on a lot, and I was quite literally waiting for something to happen or information to reveal itself, as most YA thrillers do. Some characters, like the private detective Dana, completely disappeared for a bit, and played a much smaller role than I would think? Ultimately, I just struggled a lot with the pacing of this.
Overall, once I got to the resolution/reveal at the very end, I felt this was entertaining enough but there were too many Harry Potter references (why?! JKR is a TERF, & there are so many other fantasy legacies one can add in!)
cw: murder, violence, child death, grief, injury, blackmail, corruption, too many Harry Potter references 😒
I thought there was too much telling/exposition, especially for the context of our main character Lucy’s relationships with all of the deceased. I felt like the middle part (40-70%) dragged on a lot, and I was quite literally waiting for something to happen or information to reveal itself, as most YA thrillers do. Some characters, like the private detective Dana, completely disappeared for a bit, and played a much smaller role than I would think? Ultimately, I just struggled a lot with the pacing of this.
Overall, once I got to the resolution/reveal at the very end, I felt this was entertaining enough but there were too many Harry Potter references (why?! JKR is a TERF, & there are so many other fantasy legacies one can add in!)
cw: murder, violence, child death, grief, injury, blackmail, corruption, too many Harry Potter references 😒
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail