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ezwolf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racism, and Death of parent
Minor: Eating disorder, Sexism, and Lesbophobia
novaleestar'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? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
vaguely_pink's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Ableism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and War
connorjdaley's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This is a fourteen person, seven day hide-and-seek competition. Two people can get out a day and there is only one single winner. With $50,000 on the line, even with the game running from sunup to sundown daily, who wouldn’t be enticed into playing? Of course nothing is as it seems, there’s the horror.
At only 240 pages, this is a rather short one. Yet it still felt like kind of a slog to me. The story takes a strange amount of time to get going, the characters’ backgrounds play so heavily into the story and yet most of them are pointless or even unbelievable. The exposition takes away almost all of the creepiness…and let me tell you, this could have been a really creepy story.
The last section of the book though I really did enjoy (although even that felt like it went on for a little too long) which saved it. Once the truth is out the novel kind of goes balls-to-the-walls for the last 40 or so pages. Still in no way creepy or scary, but at the least I was entertained and interested to see what happened.
Kind of into it, but I didn’t love it.
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
nixieba25f's review
- 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
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism