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dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
3.0
I dont feel like writing coherent paragraphs:
- a solid debut. you can tell this is ritter’s first novel though (I don’t mean this negatively)
- wanted a nice easy read and this did the job. not super crazy and what I would personally consider a beach read
- going from sapkowski’s mile long chapters to patterson-esque chapters in this novel was jarring. why can’t any of the authors I read write normal length chapters??
- she kind of belabors the point. it’s a bit much
- not a critique, but this is an incredibly obvious self-insert (and I don’t even know that much about ritter)
- brent and condor were too similar to me and up until the end I genuinely couldn’t tell the difference between them
- I liked that this was more than just an environmental mystery
- there was a lot going on in this book and felt a bit fragmented at times. I think it would’ve been better if she made this 350ish pages. like, the whole “fake kaycee” thing and sheriff kahn having a timeshare in florida and being overall weird about kaycee just wasn’t addressed in the way I wanted it to.
- the word aphasia is misused and I don’t know how this wasn’t caught by the editor
- I did enjoy it despite it sounding like I didn’t lol
put all the content warnings in moderate bc i’m lazy
- a solid debut. you can tell this is ritter’s first novel though (I don’t mean this negatively)
- wanted a nice easy read and this did the job. not super crazy and what I would personally consider a beach read
- going from sapkowski’s mile long chapters to patterson-esque chapters in this novel was jarring. why can’t any of the authors I read write normal length chapters??
- she kind of belabors the point. it’s a bit much
- not a critique, but this is an incredibly obvious self-insert (and I don’t even know that much about ritter)
- I liked that this was more than just an environmental mystery
- there was a lot going on in this book and felt a bit fragmented at times. I think it would’ve been better if she made this 350ish pages.
- the word aphasia is misused and I don’t know how this wasn’t caught by the editor
- I did enjoy it despite it sounding like I didn’t lol
put all the content warnings in moderate bc i’m lazy
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
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