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jadejulissaa 's review for:
Sadie
by Courtney Summers
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
I did like the concept of this book with the podcast host West trying to find Sadie, and did enjoy jumping back and forth in the timeline from Sadie's POV and the podcast of all the people she ran into and her grandmother who is trying to find her. Sadie is trying to avenge her sister Mattie who died and she is on a mission to find the man that killed her. While we do get a good sense of what happened to Mattie during Sadie's timeline, West is trying to put all the pieces together and understand why Sadie decided to go on this mission and is trying to bring her home.
West uncovers many truths on his journey to finding Sadie, and as he finds out all her secrets he is also reporting all the information on his podcast and trying to get the world to help find her as well. I do think the plot itself was well-developed, and the audio did a good job in depicting Sadie's stutter and making her come to life. I do think I should have just read the book though because the narrators voice for Sadie was annoying to me but it did not take away from the story and how it was progressing.
The ending was something I was not satisfied with, in one way I could understand why they thought it would be the best ending and it was nice but at the same time it's like we had this whole book on Sadie and all of a sudden it just stops... still a good read! 3.75!
West uncovers many truths on his journey to finding Sadie, and as he finds out all her secrets he is also reporting all the information on his podcast and trying to get the world to help find her as well. I do think the plot itself was well-developed, and the audio did a good job in depicting Sadie's stutter and making her come to life. I do think I should have just read the book though because the narrators voice for Sadie was annoying to me but it did not take away from the story and how it was progressing.
The ending was something I was not satisfied with, in one way I could understand why they thought it would be the best ending and it was nice but at the same time it's like we had this whole book on Sadie and all of a sudden it just stops... still a good read! 3.75!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault, Murder