Reviews

The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes

demonprodigy's review against another edition

it's not even the themes bothering me - i just can't stand the writing style any more. picking it back up feels like homework every time!

chaoshermit's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Deeply fucked up but very well written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

crowsandprose's review against another edition

4.0

A. N. Homes wrote one of the most disturbing novels, I think, of all time-- one that takes you into the mind of two pedophiles and shows you their world and strange, sick logic. It is not for the faint of heart, not for the weak of spirit, and not for those who want to see a pedophile condemned.

It isn't five stars sheerly for the subject matter, and that's the same reason I write this review -- to warn those who might read this, not knowing what they're going to get into. I don't really feel like glorifying a work wrapped around a pedophile's life or the empathy one can find with him. Still, the writing was sound, the book engrossing -- much like a trainwreck is.

alithompsonn's review against another edition

Just… shocking. Trying to be something and failing. It has nothing to say, it is just purely gratuitous and disgusting 

dweebess87's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

2.0

concretecorn's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

madelinequinnee's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Not entirely sure how to sum up this book. It was an interesting read, and i think the writing was very well done, but the ending left a lot of loose ends that i think could have been explored more. 

The final chapter was especially disturbing to me, and there were many scenes that made me feel very icky, so this certainly isn’t a book for the faint hearted and definitely check trigger warnings before picking this up because it gets very heavy very quickly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Sexual violence, Suicide, Confinement, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Child death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Death of parent, Drug use, Sexual assault, Stalking, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Murder, Self harm, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

antichristl's review against another edition

dark

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

misstwosense's review against another edition

1.0

Unreadable

Subject matter aside, this book is unreadable. The absolute walls of meandering, nonsensical text. Paragraphs upon paragraphs of endlessly wordy descriptions. It’s Margaret Mitchell meets the horror genre.

This book was written with a thesaurus in one hand and, well, you can guess what was in the other. Nothing of value here, don’t even bother.

waverlyloyd's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Death of parent, Violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Vomit