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A review by rosita
Sadie by Courtney Summers
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
4.5
I would say Sadie is a lot more "new adult" than "young adult", and i wouldnt for the life of me recommend it to someone younger than 16.
If you want to read this book, i ask you two things:
1- listen to the audiobook: the book has some podcasts elements to it and i cannot express how good the full cast audiobook does that stuff. It enchanced the experience a lot.
2-please read the trigger warnings. While good, it is very graphic in some terrible, terrible topics.
By the way, Sadie, the protagonist, has a stutter and that is never cured. It was once of the best representations for a stutter I have ever seen.
Spoilers:
I really liked how it showed that the monsters walking among us sometimes look like good people: they get people jobs, they build cities, they have families. They are still monsters.
While i am frustrated at the open ending, it was the best way of finishing the story: it gives us a little bit of hope, even though we probably know what is the most likely thing to have happened.
If you want to read this book, i ask you two things:
1- listen to the audiobook: the book has some podcasts elements to it and i cannot express how good the full cast audiobook does that stuff. It enchanced the experience a lot.
2-please read the trigger warnings. While good, it is very graphic in some terrible, terrible topics.
By the way, Sadie, the protagonist, has a stutter and that is never cured. It was once of the best representations for a stutter I have ever seen.
Spoilers:
While i am frustrated at the open ending, it was the best way of finishing the story: it gives us a little bit of hope, even though we probably know what is the most likely thing to have happened.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Pedophilia, and Violence
Moderate: Blood and Death
Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Self harm, Suicide, and Vomit