sabyrd 's review for:

Hearing Red by Nicole Maser

4.75

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The characters hold in air like hot air balloons. They hummed and loosed breaths every other sentence. Quite a few typos throughout the book. Plot could be stronger in terms of tying the story together. Saff’s

asthma

could have played a more significant role in hindering her as it seemed to be merely an annoyance in most instances. 

I was thrilled to learn that

Maddie was blind

as I wasn’t expecting that. It made the story more interesting and definitely was used brilliantly for her character. She was challenged by it but never completely helpless and was quite capable. 

I really loved this book. I couldn’t put it down honestly. The two main characters were well written and interesting and I could really feel for them. The side characters were very underdeveloped, but it wasn’t really that big of a deal overall. The ending climax was very tense and kept me on the edge of my emotional seat. 

I wanted more descriptions of the characters as I never learned Saff’s hair color or length or eye color or what Maddie’s family looked like. The zombies were barely described so I just pictured classic zombies from The Walking Dead. I rarely knew what characters were wearing and maybe the author wanted to leave all that up to the imagination, but it felt unfair that Maddie got a hair and eye color when no one else did (except Josh’s hair color). Would not have minded a tiny bit more spice. Those are minor complaints as I really did enjoy the book and would definitely recommend it.