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linds_h's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Drug use, Grief, Car accident, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Addiction, Murder, Child death, Death, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts
lais's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Drug use, Gun violence, Drug abuse, and Death
Minor: Sexual violence
weatheringaddy's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Death, and Murder
annachanslor's review against another edition
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Death, and Drug abuse
fedekanejbrainrot's review against another edition
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started.
okay this is gonna be long but y'all need to know how much I loved this book.
what's far from you? It's a YA mistery about Sophie Winters, who had just witnessed the murder of her best friend Mina Bishop, and afterwards was sent to rehab because of her drug addiction. After coming back to her small hometown, Sophie starts to investigate about Mina's murder, who killed her and why they killed her. Alternated with the present-chapers about Sophie investigation there are the past-chapters about Sophie and Mina through the years 'till Mina's murder.
I curl my fingers around the ring so tightly, I’m surprised the word stamped into the silver doesn’t carve its way into me the way she did.
while this is in fact a mistery, I suggest you to not focus too much on the mistery part, because it's not that developmented, is mostly character driven.
But this is the thing about struggling out of that hole you've put yourself in: the higher you climb, the farther you have to fall.
Sophie and Mina are so well written characters and they feel so real. Because they have a LOT of flaws. Sophie is anger-driven, frustated and sad. Mina is prideful, arrogant and hurts many people. And that's why I love both of them so much. Because Sophie is also kind, strong and loyal. And Mina is "wonderfully cruel and cruelly sweet". She is independent, she doesn't want others to interfere with her works, because they are THEIRS and she wants to do all by herself. And that's what will lead her to her end. I related a lot to Mina (and to Sophie too) and I love both for who they are: humans, with flaws and merits.
But my heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.
This has been Mina's first step toward what she'd always wanted, to become a part of the world outside of our dusty little town, "to contribute" as she used to put it. Instead, she'd been reduced to a handful of stories written about her instead of by her.
also, their romance? Easily one of my faves ships ever. Seeing the friendship, the angst, the words never told…ARGH they're just perfecr, bestfriends to lovers and mutual pining ALWAYS wins.
I'll choose you. No matter how hard it is. No matter what people say. Every time, I'll choose you. It's up to you to choose me back.
another thing that I love abouy this book is starting with Mina's death and then, as the story progress, make you feel so sorry for her. She was so young, 6 months after I read this I still think about it and feel so sorry for her, it's insane.
Wakeupwakeupwakeuppleasepleaseplease. No help comes. It’s just her and me. Mina’s skin gets colder by the minute. I still don’t let her go.
and the last two chapters? Sophie letting Mina go? My heart was genuinely breaking.
"It was Mina this whole time, wasn’t it?"
I give him the only thing I can: the cold, hard truth. The one that’ll rewrite every memory he has - of him and me, her and me, the two of them, all three of us: "It’ll always be Mina."
the only thing I didn't like was the reveal/action chapter, I know that this book is a mistery so it was the crucial chapter, but it felt so anticlimatic if we compare it to the whole story and messages. Also, there wasn't much foreshadowing about the murderer and, let's be honest, no one cared.
"She was in love with you,” he says. “And I don’t think she got to tell you, did she?
My heart lurches, seizes inside my chest, fluttering to life at the words I’ve always wanted to hear. I shake my head. Tears spill down my cheeks.
“She loved you. She wanted to be with you. That’s why she told me about herself. She said she’d made her choice. It was you. I think it was always you."
Is this the perfect book? No
Will I still give it five stars for the emotional damage it did to me? Yes, obv
There’s this long road ahead. It’s never-ending, because you don’t get over losing someone. Not completely. Not when she was a part of you. Not when loving her broke you as much as it changed you.
okay this is gonna be long but y'all need to know how much I loved this book.
what's far from you? It's a YA mistery about Sophie Winters, who had just witnessed the murder of her best friend Mina Bishop, and afterwards was sent to rehab because of her drug addiction. After coming back to her small hometown, Sophie starts to investigate about Mina's murder, who killed her and why they killed her. Alternated with the present-chapers about Sophie investigation there are the past-chapters about Sophie and Mina through the years 'till Mina's murder.
I curl my fingers around the ring so tightly, I’m surprised the word stamped into the silver doesn’t carve its way into me the way she did.
while this is in fact a mistery, I suggest you to not focus too much on the mistery part, because it's not that developmented, is mostly character driven.
But this is the thing about struggling out of that hole you've put yourself in: the higher you climb, the farther you have to fall.
Sophie and Mina are so well written characters and they feel so real. Because they have a LOT of flaws. Sophie is anger-driven, frustated and sad. Mina is prideful, arrogant and hurts many people. And that's why I love both of them so much. Because Sophie is also kind, strong and loyal. And Mina is "wonderfully cruel and cruelly sweet". She is independent, she doesn't want others to interfere with her works, because they are THEIRS and she wants to do all by herself. And that's what will lead her to her end. I related a lot to Mina (and to Sophie too) and I love both for who they are: humans, with flaws and merits.
But my heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.
This has been Mina's first step toward what she'd always wanted, to become a part of the world outside of our dusty little town, "to contribute" as she used to put it. Instead, she'd been reduced to a handful of stories written about her instead of by her.
also, their romance? Easily one of my faves ships ever. Seeing the friendship, the angst, the words never told…ARGH they're just perfecr, bestfriends to lovers and mutual pining ALWAYS wins.
I'll choose you. No matter how hard it is. No matter what people say. Every time, I'll choose you. It's up to you to choose me back.
another thing that I love abouy this book is starting with Mina's death and then, as the story progress, make you feel so sorry for her. She was so young, 6 months after I read this I still think about it and feel so sorry for her, it's insane.
Wakeupwakeupwakeuppleasepleaseplease. No help comes. It’s just her and me. Mina’s skin gets colder by the minute. I still don’t let her go.
and the last two chapters? Sophie letting Mina go? My heart was genuinely breaking.
"It was Mina this whole time, wasn’t it?"
I give him the only thing I can: the cold, hard truth. The one that’ll rewrite every memory he has - of him and me, her and me, the two of them, all three of us: "It’ll always be Mina."
the only thing I didn't like was the reveal/action chapter, I know that this book is a mistery so it was the crucial chapter, but it felt so anticlimatic if we compare it to the whole story and messages. Also, there wasn't much foreshadowing about the murderer and, let's be honest, no one cared.
"She was in love with you,” he says. “And I don’t think she got to tell you, did she?
My heart lurches, seizes inside my chest, fluttering to life at the words I’ve always wanted to hear. I shake my head. Tears spill down my cheeks.
“She loved you. She wanted to be with you. That’s why she told me about herself. She said she’d made her choice. It was you. I think it was always you."
Is this the perfect book? No
Will I still give it five stars for the emotional damage it did to me? Yes, obv
There’s this long road ahead. It’s never-ending, because you don’t get over losing someone. Not completely. Not when she was a part of you. Not when loving her broke you as much as it changed you.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Grief
erica_0000'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
5.0
This book was fantastic and I had no idea who the real killer was. There were so many twists and turns. Literally the only thing I didn’t agree with was there is no way that Sophie’s parents would just leave her to get into trouble right after she gets out of rehab. But anyways the characters were amazing and the story was phenomenal.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Murder, and Death
Moderate: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Adult/minor relationship
vidya_is_vidya's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Murder, Drug abuse, and Addiction
Moderate: Gun violence
Minor: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape
bizarabooks's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
This book was so incredible, I don't even know where to begin. Though the blurb alerts us to Minas death her characters presence is still felt throughout the whole book and makes her loss so heartbreaking. The character development from so many different characters is so remarkable and suspense is built thoroughly throughout. The book deals with some heavy subject matter and I advise reading trigger warnings before picking the book up but I think the book deals with them with respect. The writing is amazing and you simply cannot put the book down. This is my second book by Tess Sharpe and I am obsessed with her writing style and will definitely look to picking up more from her. Overall the characters, plot, pacing and ending were so good and the book contrasts heartwarming moments with heartbreaking moments so well.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Biphobia, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
cqlores's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Homophobia
moriconi's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
broke my heart I feel SICK. would definitely recommend tho go read it
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Car accident and Drug use
Minor: Suicidal thoughts