mo345 's review for:

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Another hit from horror’s rising star, Andrew Joseph White. White manages to deftly weave gore, history, and the desire for a better society into roughly 400 pages while still making sure you enjoy the ride. This book could not have come at a better time and today’s political climate really plays into the atmosphere while reading it. The only reason this isn’t getting a full five stars is because I’m still not sure how the main families know each other, or the logistics of how they

were involved with the car crash.

Overall, a great read full of twists and turns that I never wanted to put down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Dysphoria

The main character’s dog does not die.