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chapteroneandbeyondpod's Reviews (361)
This was a creepy and difficult read and following along with the audiobook brought a whole other element to the experience for me. I have never read anything by Lisa Jewell before this one and I'm glad that my book club selected this one. I appreciated the psychopath of the book being different than the norm not to give anything away. The twists were soo good and definitely has turned into my favorite thriller of all time.
I truly believe I found my new favorite mystery thriller. O...M...G..that ending!?! did not see that coming and absolutely love the to be continued i'm like what the way to leave a cliff hanger like that LOL. I'm now scrambling to get my hands on the vanishing stair. Hopefully i can get my hands on it cause I want to keep going soooo badly now. I love love loved this book and binged this within a day. it was that good. I know this is a YA mystery thriller but I'd say this one was better than most adult mystery thrillers. I loved getting a scope into a boarding school environment. I loved the writing style. I loved Stevie she was amazing! and Nate what a good combination. The gambit of characters whether they were the main or side characters really meshed well and made this a perfect magical story that I am definitely going to reread in the future once I get through this first round of reading. I cannot wait for the box in the woods now in june 2021!
This one was good but this one didn't scream out to me like the first installment of the series. I definitely would call this a 4 star. I thought stevie was a bit dramatic in this one but still very vested in this series and its characters. Really looking forward to book 3 :)
I have not been disappointed yet in this series and I'm surprised even further each and every installment on the suspense factor. Stevie is amazing and I love everything about this one. Can't wait for the fourth in this series!
I wish I had discovered this book sooner. Sooooo good. took me forever to get through because the copy i have the print was really really tiny but overall really great start to this series. I am excited for the further world building and characters.
I rarely give two star ratings but unfortunately i was pretty disappointed in this read. It was a slow moving start. it didn't pick up till about 200 pages in. I was bored and though i can appreciate the main female not being a picture perfect "princess" that is the only thing I can like about this character. Rhen was interesting and thats all i can say about him. It felt repetitive between the two perspectives example of this is that we get rhen's perspective and thought process and then rewind now its harpers turn talking through the scene and thought process. I feel a dual perspective story line is fine but when scenes are repeated or feel repeated after just reading through in the other person i get bored. I have a feeling I'm an outlier in how I feel about it as booktube really hyped this book series up but I'm glad I powered through read it and its done. Sadly i went in thinking this was going to be an amazing beauty and the beast retelling but it really fell short for me.
I loved this book so much. the children are just absolutely perfect and the master of the house is so amazing <3 I hated linus at first but fell in love with him towards the end. Overall i don't see how anyone could hate something so warm and amazing as this book. The extremely upper management made me think the ministry of magic from harry potter for some odd reason. overall hands down a five star read. so glad I picked this one up to get myself out of a funk. Great way to end my summer.
My absolute favorite of Klunes to date. Such a fun whimsical book about life and even death. Normally when books touch on death its morbid but this was so amazingly well done. I don't want to give any spoilers away but if you haven't picked this book up I highly recommend.