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ilianaelizabeth's review against another edition
4.0
Me tomó una vida terminar este libro y en un principio le puse tres estrellas y ahora decidí darle cuatro pero esto puede variar con el tiempo.
Me gustó, pero creo que este libro es de esos que prometen mucho y cumplen poco. Sí es cierto que toca temas muy fuertes, como el abuso, las adicciones, el abandono; pero no por eso se convierte automáticamente en un buen libro.
La historia está bien, me gustó, y me gustó cómo está narrada también, con esos saltos entre lo que Sadie vive en carne propia y lo que el podcast va descubriendo en la medida que surgen nuevos indicios y personas que aportan datos a la cronología de los eventos. Sadie es una badass que la pasó muy pero muy mal en la vida y decidió hacer una bola con todo eso y usarlo de motor para buscar justicia por su hermanita.
Me gusta también que sea (o por lo menos desde donde lo veo), una crítica a la policía y sus protocolos cuando desaparece alguien, o cuando un crimen tiene lugar, porque Sadie va descubriendo cosas muy turbias aun dentro de su torpeza y su inexperiencia en cuanto a investigaciones policiales.
Es interesante cómo las investigaciones tanto de Sadie como de West McCray van tocando los mismos puntos pero a velocidades absolutamente distintas y con un sistema de organización completamente diferente.
Los personajes están muy bien desarrollados. Puntualmente no me encariñé con ninguno pero no creo que esa haya sido la idea de la autora, sino simplemente escuchar todas las voces que iba a tener el relato y ver también todas las formas en que pueden ver a Sadie las personas que la rodean o cruzan por alguna razón.
El final no es el que esperaba pero entiendo que es uno bastante real, y supongo que es el que tenía que tener la historia.
Lo recomiendo pero es muy importante tener en cuenta el grado de contenido sensible al que uno se quiere exponer antes de sentarse a leer.
Me gustó, pero creo que este libro es de esos que prometen mucho y cumplen poco. Sí es cierto que toca temas muy fuertes, como el abuso, las adicciones, el abandono; pero no por eso se convierte automáticamente en un buen libro.
La historia está bien, me gustó, y me gustó cómo está narrada también, con esos saltos entre lo que Sadie vive en carne propia y lo que el podcast va descubriendo en la medida que surgen nuevos indicios y personas que aportan datos a la cronología de los eventos. Sadie es una badass que la pasó muy pero muy mal en la vida y decidió hacer una bola con todo eso y usarlo de motor para buscar justicia por su hermanita.
Me gusta también que sea (o por lo menos desde donde lo veo), una crítica a la policía y sus protocolos cuando desaparece alguien, o cuando un crimen tiene lugar, porque Sadie va descubriendo cosas muy turbias aun dentro de su torpeza y su inexperiencia en cuanto a investigaciones policiales.
Es interesante cómo las investigaciones tanto de Sadie como de West McCray van tocando los mismos puntos pero a velocidades absolutamente distintas y con un sistema de organización completamente diferente.
Los personajes están muy bien desarrollados. Puntualmente no me encariñé con ninguno pero no creo que esa haya sido la idea de la autora, sino simplemente escuchar todas las voces que iba a tener el relato y ver también todas las formas en que pueden ver a Sadie las personas que la rodean o cruzan por alguna razón.
El final no es el que esperaba pero entiendo que es uno bastante real, y supongo que es el que tenía que tener la historia.
Lo recomiendo pero es muy importante tener en cuenta el grado de contenido sensible al que uno se quiere exponer antes de sentarse a leer.
taryns's review against another edition
challenging
dark
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
hollidayreadswithme's review against another edition
3.0
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SADIE by Courtney Summers is a book about a young girl on a mission to find the man who murdered her sister. The thing that makes this book unique is the podcast aspect of it. And although that is an interesting concept the execution gets lost in book form. In fact, it seems for the novel to be appreciated then it must be in audiobook form. At best, it’s a great marketing strategy as the audiobook has a full cast and musical accompaniment; at worst, it’s a way of stretching out a story that would most likely be around 150 pages and allows for telling instead of showing, a writing style I abhor.
The characters, for the most part, were utterly unlikeable. I didn’t get a chance to like them because the book didn’t expound on any character that Sadie came across apart from her perception of them. Which for the most part is very negative. There was a smattering of description of the business and residences of the small town of Coal Creek, but that came from the podcast so it was minimal.
The On the Road trope is at play here, in a way that doesn’t make sense until you realize that the stories are not being told concurrently. Maybe that is just something that I didn’t catch because I found myself fading in and out. Sadie’s story gripped me but the podcast angle didn’t bring anything to the table. A lot of the pieces he was fitting together were already set and because he was catching on after the reader, it didn’t feel like there was enough urgency. This mild curiosity peppered with his initial unwillingness to take the story made his attempts at finding her, even though he had a “team” on it, felt disingenuous. There were multiple times where he could have talked to the police about the crime scene and asked them to run any DNA through the state database. He spoke to exactly one police person.
I had an issue with a phrase. Sadie meets a woman who she describes having “dark black skin”. Summers makes a point of showing that Sadie is not easily helped, or rather no one helps her without being threatened or yelled at but the only decent woman who helps Sadie without asking questions is described as dark black. Not only is that sad because of the lack of representation, and yes, I know it’s very good of her to create a main character with a stutter. I’ve not really seen that before. But the only people of color in the book are Javi, who is considered weak by his friends (with whom Sadie tries to forge a weak romantic link), the bumbling police officer who really doesn’t do much to solve Mattie’s murder and the “dark black” woman. Their presence in the book is more than most, but still.
I’ve seen a lot of people have an issue with the ending. I’m not going to spoil it, but overwhelmingly I have seen reviews about how the ending fell flat or left them feeling the book was unfinished, but that was one of the only things that I liked about the book. The ending was left open which I believe is reflective of the subject matter of the book. Girls go missing all of the time. Most of the time they aren’t found. It’s a sad and heavy thing to think about but when you read a book like this, you have to be ready for your heart to break because either way, it will.
SADIE by Courtney Summers is a book about a young girl on a mission to find the man who murdered her sister. The thing that makes this book unique is the podcast aspect of it. And although that is an interesting concept the execution gets lost in book form. In fact, it seems for the novel to be appreciated then it must be in audiobook form. At best, it’s a great marketing strategy as the audiobook has a full cast and musical accompaniment; at worst, it’s a way of stretching out a story that would most likely be around 150 pages and allows for telling instead of showing, a writing style I abhor.
The characters, for the most part, were utterly unlikeable. I didn’t get a chance to like them because the book didn’t expound on any character that Sadie came across apart from her perception of them. Which for the most part is very negative. There was a smattering of description of the business and residences of the small town of Coal Creek, but that came from the podcast so it was minimal.
The On the Road trope is at play here, in a way that doesn’t make sense until you realize that the stories are not being told concurrently. Maybe that is just something that I didn’t catch because I found myself fading in and out. Sadie’s story gripped me but the podcast angle didn’t bring anything to the table. A lot of the pieces he was fitting together were already set and because he was catching on after the reader, it didn’t feel like there was enough urgency. This mild curiosity peppered with his initial unwillingness to take the story made his attempts at finding her, even though he had a “team” on it, felt disingenuous. There were multiple times where he could have talked to the police about the crime scene and asked them to run any DNA through the state database. He spoke to exactly one police person.
I had an issue with a phrase. Sadie meets a woman who she describes having “dark black skin”. Summers makes a point of showing that Sadie is not easily helped, or rather no one helps her without being threatened or yelled at but the only decent woman who helps Sadie without asking questions is described as dark black. Not only is that sad because of the lack of representation, and yes, I know it’s very good of her to create a main character with a stutter. I’ve not really seen that before. But the only people of color in the book are Javi, who is considered weak by his friends (with whom Sadie tries to forge a weak romantic link), the bumbling police officer who really doesn’t do much to solve Mattie’s murder and the “dark black” woman. Their presence in the book is more than most, but still.
I’ve seen a lot of people have an issue with the ending. I’m not going to spoil it, but overwhelmingly I have seen reviews about how the ending fell flat or left them feeling the book was unfinished, but that was one of the only things that I liked about the book. The ending was left open which I believe is reflective of the subject matter of the book. Girls go missing all of the time. Most of the time they aren’t found. It’s a sad and heavy thing to think about but when you read a book like this, you have to be ready for your heart to break because either way, it will.
dvnielletreads's review against another edition
4.0
this book is a lot. all the trigger warnings for readers who aren't certain this book is their best choice; please tread it lightly and safely for you.
sadie is reeling from the murder of her younger sister, mattie. their mom isn't around, and sadie feels as if she's lost the one tether to the planet she has with mattie gone. so she sets out to find the man who did it, determined to be the one that removes him from the earth. told in duel-parts from sadie's hunt for her sister's killer to a true crime podcast that relates the story back to us through what only true crime deep dives can, sadie cuts and punches and knocks you down, much like the book's namesake has happen to her.
i read it at a time that probably wasn't the best for me, but it's kept my brain focused on other things so i suppose that's why i'm only giving it 4 stars. also.
sadie is reeling from the murder of her younger sister, mattie. their mom isn't around, and sadie feels as if she's lost the one tether to the planet she has with mattie gone. so she sets out to find the man who did it, determined to be the one that removes him from the earth. told in duel-parts from sadie's hunt for her sister's killer to a true crime podcast that relates the story back to us through what only true crime deep dives can, sadie cuts and punches and knocks you down, much like the book's namesake has happen to her.
i read it at a time that probably wasn't the best for me, but it's kept my brain focused on other things so i suppose that's why i'm only giving it 4 stars. also
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the ending is so open-ended that it pains me, and i just need to know.sklus's review against another edition
3.0
I had a hard time getting through this book. When I read crime novels, I like the strange ones. The ones about serial killers or kids with special crime-solving talents and Sadie just wasn't like that. It was a little too real to life; there's only suffering and pain and no perfect resolution where everyone is happy and whole. It's not even too much of a mystery, you know who the killer is a few chapters into the book. I'm glad I read it, but this is not my go-to book recommendation for friends who want to get into reading.
arisbookjourney's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.75
claire_baco's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25