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hannahbanana1025 's review for:
Slice of Cherry
by Dia Reeves
DID NOT FINISH
I typically don’t feel the need to review books, whether I like them or not, but this book is so bad I truly feel the need to say something.
I do want to preface by saying, I DNF’d it after almost 200 pages. But in those 200 pages there wasn’t a single redeeming thing about this book that could’ve made me want to read the remaining 300.
Slice of Cherry seemed to have a severe identity crisis with what type of book it wanted to be and what plot(s) it wanted to nurture to become a good story. There are thrilling, fantastical, and perhaps mysterious and crime elements to it. But not a single one of these were nurtured in any way to make the story good or make sense. Instead, all of these elements are thrown into the pot that is this books without ANY additional building on any of them. After 200 pages, it was an absolute mess and made zero sense whatsoever.
The characters couldn’t even be a redeeming quality to this book, since they are incredibly one-dimensional and boring. The lack of character building is probably the most frustrating thing about this book which made me not want to finish it. Fancy and Kit are our main characters and the progeny of a notorious serial killer, but in 200 pages, that’s all we get. There is no further building on their background as characters. I was under the impression (from the book’s description) that these girls would lean into these dark impulses that are a reminder of their father and the atrocities he committed. But there was no lean in! The book quite literally starts out with them capturing and torturing someone who tries to break into their house. And again, there is NO background on their supposedly evil father that is supposed to add to the story arcs of these characters.
I also truly don’t understand the attempt at fantasy by adding monsters to this town and the monster “police.” It seems like a lame and convenient plot point as well as this ancestor, Cherry, who calls out to Fancy. What is the point of literally all of this? Where I really had trouble understanding this story as well, is it is made such a point that Fancy and Kit’s father is an evil serial killer. But a side character (Gabriel, I think?) is randomly holding up a severed head at some point? Huh??? If their daddy, the eeeeeevil “Bonesaw Killer” is so crazy evil and terrible, why do we have these absolute sociopathic characters and they’re written so nonchalantly. And no one seems to have consequences for committing “evil” things? Like, they just do bad things and the people in Portero talk about how bad it is but nothing ever happens afterwards.
This books was an absolute mess and the description is misleading. Slice of Cherry wanted to be so many things but just ended up being a terrible “thriller” soup. I am genuinely disappointed in how bad it was because I had high hopes. If the books focused on one or two of these points perhaps it wouldn’t have been so bad. But it was just a lame, wannabe, thriller book.
I do want to preface by saying, I DNF’d it after almost 200 pages. But in those 200 pages there wasn’t a single redeeming thing about this book that could’ve made me want to read the remaining 300.
Slice of Cherry seemed to have a severe identity crisis with what type of book it wanted to be and what plot(s) it wanted to nurture to become a good story. There are thrilling, fantastical, and perhaps mysterious and crime elements to it. But not a single one of these were nurtured in any way to make the story good or make sense. Instead, all of these elements are thrown into the pot that is this books without ANY additional building on any of them. After 200 pages, it was an absolute mess and made zero sense whatsoever.
The characters couldn’t even be a redeeming quality to this book, since they are incredibly one-dimensional and boring. The lack of character building is probably the most frustrating thing about this book which made me not want to finish it. Fancy and Kit are our main characters and the progeny of a notorious serial killer, but in 200 pages, that’s all we get. There is no further building on their background as characters. I was under the impression (from the book’s description) that these girls would lean into these dark impulses that are a reminder of their father and the atrocities he committed. But there was no lean in! The book quite literally starts out with them capturing and torturing someone who tries to break into their house. And again, there is NO background on their supposedly evil father that is supposed to add to the story arcs of these characters.
I also truly don’t understand the attempt at fantasy by adding monsters to this town and the monster “police.” It seems like a lame and convenient plot point as well as this ancestor, Cherry, who calls out to Fancy. What is the point of literally all of this? Where I really had trouble understanding this story as well, is it is made such a point that Fancy and Kit’s father is an evil serial killer. But a side character (Gabriel, I think?) is randomly holding up a severed head at some point? Huh??? If their daddy, the eeeeeevil “Bonesaw Killer” is so crazy evil and terrible, why do we have these absolute sociopathic characters and they’re written so nonchalantly. And no one seems to have consequences for committing “evil” things? Like, they just do bad things and the people in Portero talk about how bad it is but nothing ever happens afterwards.
This books was an absolute mess and the description is misleading. Slice of Cherry wanted to be so many things but just ended up being a terrible “thriller” soup. I am genuinely disappointed in how bad it was because I had high hopes. If the books focused on one or two of these points perhaps it wouldn’t have been so bad. But it was just a lame, wannabe, thriller book.