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wganas4's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Murder, and Police brutality
Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, Cursing, Medical trauma, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Addiction, and Death of parent
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Suicide, Bullying, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Car accident
dblue236's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Gore, Murder, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Violence
Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Suicide, and Drug abuse
Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Alcohol, and Vomit
twistykris's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
2. The adults calling new-girl Quinn a "whore" and a "slut" when she's literally done nothing was maddening.
3. I also feel like the timeline is so off. The Founder's Day incident happens and the adults who were in this "Make Kettle Springs Great Again" group now decide "let's go slaughter a bunch of kids." It just feels like everything happens SO fast that it doesn't make sense.
4. Ronnie and Matt are just... in on murdering their friends? Because they want to be on the "right side of history"?? Makes 0 sense to me.
5. Cole and Rust's relationship felt oddly thrown in. Sure, they were childhood friends, but they don't get that much interaction with each other in the book. Quinn's POV suggested maybe everyone had a crush on Cole (as in Janet, Ronnie, and Matt), but even from Cole's POV there didn't seem to be any sort of romantic feelings towards Rust. A desire to reconnect, sure, but they were literally hanging out for the first time in years at the party. This doesn't feel like queer rep.
6. And the ending with Cole's dad going to Cuba to "do the job right" was so confusing? How is him going to Cuba relate to killing his son? I think this was supposed to be a cliffhanger to lead into the sequel, but I was just left dumbfounded and confused.
And one of my biggest issues was the audiobook. I liked Jesse Vilinsky's narration in Seanan McGuire's Lost in the Moment and Found. But in this, the accents and the voice she gave for men and teenage boys was just distracting and at times the narration was so overly dramatic to the point it was hard to understand what she was saying.
I will not be reading the sequel, even after that (bizarre) cliffhanger epilogue.
Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Blood, Gore, Murder, Child death, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Police brutality, and Medical content
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders
2busyreading's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Addiction and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Misogyny, Racism, and Death of parent
ilaxaria's review
3.25
Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Blood, Police brutality, Violence, Body horror, and Child death
Moderate: Drug abuse and Addiction
Minor: Bullying, Suicide, Medical content, and Racism
thanksfrthemoomeries's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Gore, Death, and Blood
Moderate: Alcohol and Addiction
Minor: Death of parent and Cancer
this book was really fun to read once you got to the slasher points. i think it’s a bit slow, but once things start it doesn’t stop. my only real problem is i found the reveal too early, and once that reveal came i figured it all out and it wasn’t as fun to read. over all i wish it was a bit more sophisticated, but being a YA slasher it met its mark just fine. the ending surprises were fun and a nice little touch!whimsicalish's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Blood, Gore, Death, Murder, and Violence
Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Death of parent, and Drug abuse
kstericker's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Body horror, Police brutality, Violence, Blood, Confinement, Gun violence, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, and Murder
Minor: Addiction and Drug abuse
baileyraebooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Gore, Death, and Body horror
Moderate: Bullying, Addiction, and Suicide
voidcrawler's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Gore, and Blood
Moderate: Toxic friendship, Death of parent, and Kidnapping
Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Toxic friendship