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kellym14's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Infertility, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Suicide, Vomit, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Death, and Miscarriage
anne_reader's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Confinement, Death of parent, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Violence, Vomit, and Physical abuse
alsnapp's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Miscarriage, Suicide, Violence, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Vomit
sammymilfort's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Physical abuse, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Kidnapping, Vomit, Alcohol, Animal death, and Violence
Minor: Toxic friendship, Ableism, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Abortion
mdal26's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Graphic: Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Medical trauma, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Misogyny, Vomit, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Infidelity, Violence, and Medical content
anniepatt's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Toxic friendship, Blood, and Kidnapping
Minor: Medical trauma, Stalking, Animal death, Vomit, and Gaslighting
larajoye's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
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Graphic: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Car accident, Death, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Murder, Kidnapping, and Child abuse
Moderate: Vomit, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Violence
veronica214's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
Two of their neighbors, Bea and Kate, turn into amateur sleuths to help figure out what happened.
There are a lot of characters, and the story is told from multiple perspectives that time-hop. It can be a little difficult to keep up with. There are several twists and almost everything was *just* plausible to be believable.
I'd recommend Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger if you like this book.
Graphic: Child abuse and Death
Moderate: Medical trauma, Misogyny, Medical content, and Violence
Minor: Domestic abuse, Vomit, Kidnapping, Infidelity, and Bullying
mandycantsleep's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Child abuse, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Blood and Vomit
Minor: Alcohol
maddie_can_read's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
- Good voice acting in the audiobook and multiple actors
- How tense and how face paced the book was
- The dialogue between the characters
- Book structure, jumping back and forth through time and all the different characters perspectives
- The two story-lines and how they interwined
- The author was really good at making the reader feel the fear the characters were
- Casual LGBTQ inclusion
What I didn't like
- The characters felt a bit underdeveloped. So some of the decisions they made didn't really seem to make sense
- The logic of the book unfortunately starts to fall apart a bit for me about 3/4 of the way through the book. Like characters do things that don't really make sense/ we don't know them well enough to justify the odd decisions they make
But you know what, I enjoyed most of the ride. This would have been an easy five stars for me if just a bit more attention was paid to logic/ character development so their decisions felt logical within the context of the story. I am someone who gets caught up in details of things and really gets annoyed by things not making sense in the context so what bothered me might not bother you, or maybe it will bother you even more haha.
Spoilers :
Why are these grown ass women drunk driving? Again seems like an extremely juvenile/ immature thing to do. These ladies are presented as middle class/ upper class people who are not dumb. So they have the money for a cab and the common sense to take one. Do cabs/ Ubers not exist in this universe? I really think they would've called their partners or an Uber/ cab.
76% - The hit and hide the body. Why was the runner even in the middle of the road? Why didn't they see her? Earlier we were told that the runner was wearing running clothes. This is where the lack of character development makes things seem illogical. I just feel like we haven't seen anything from Meredith up until this point to indicate that she is such a pushover that she could literally get peer-presured into covering up a murder? I know it says she's in shock, I know she's drunk. But she literally knows who they hit. It says they're near a neig borhood. Girl if leaving the victim is unfathomable, wtf is hiding the body. RUN TO THE HOUSES???? I also feel like we didn't get to know Bea well enough to understand why she would rather risk covering up a murder than just phoning the police and risking a drunk driving manslaughter charge??? I feel like we also didn't see enough of Bea and Meridith's friendship to understand why Meredith would go along with her plan.
91% - Makes absolutely ZERO sense why Meredith would TELL BEA THAT SHE'S GOING TO TURN HER IN AND CONFRONT HER ONE ON ONE!!! the earlier illogical stuff could be forgiven but this makes no sense. Meridith at this point, literally knows Bea is capable of, if not murder, at least hiding a body, and framing an innocent person. Once again, maybe if we knew the characters a bit better/ knew their friendship a bit better this could have made a bit more sense. Especially why would Meredith would confront Bea if her child was at home. Like girl LIE to Bea! Phone the cops silly.
95% - Ok this part also makes zero sense. I really thought Bea was going to make Meredith take the knife and stab herself. Forensically this makes absolutely no sense. Self inflicted wounds look different than attack wounds!!!! She presses her palms against the wounds?? Like what. Like angles and shit man. This makes absolutely no sense. And don't hotels have videocameras ? Like what. Also she bonked her on the head with a Hammer LOL, like a self-inflicted hammer blow to the head lol
99% - copy-cat killer part is kinda weird? I feel saying this was just to justify why Carly looked so similar to Delilah. But it says they wanted attention and got none .. so why would they just keep Carly in the basement forever if they wanted attention. Also the Bea and the Garage part. Like I feel like Bea could've just said no to the police search. This part felt a bit forced. Feel like a bit of a tweak would've made it more realistic. Like Kate checking it out after being weirded out as to why Bea wouldn't let the cops in.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Animal death, Pregnancy, Suicide, Torture, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Confinement, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit
Moderate: Bullying, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, and Grief
Minor: Homophobia, Excrement, Rape, Animal death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence