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angeldevoursliterature's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Cursing, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
Minor: Classism
leexpen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Struggling with all-consuming rage, Jane North-Robinson feels chilled by more than just the autumn air when she and her mother move to her mother's childhood home, where Jane must dig up her mother's secrets to understand what is happening.
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ππ» RECOMMENDATION:
π READ IF you've got nothing else, if it works for a reading challenge, etc.
π¬ FAVORITE QUOTES:
β’ Pg. 201
do books taste like roses?
A flash of the earth with everything destroyed except this house, the last building standing, and Jane within it, trapped inside its walls, not really caring anymore whether she made it out or not.
She imagined the words dissolving off the paper and sinking into her bloodstream. She imagined her body filled with words. Made up of them. Words instead of blood, words instead of organs.
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π COMMENTS:
β’ The main characters are complex and flawed. Jane's friends are heartwarming and supportive.
β’ Jane is frustrating slow to figure out what happened, leaping to illogical conclusions for the sake of continuing the mystery.
β’ I mostly agree with the Booklist quote on the back, which reads, "Leno blends Agatha Christie and Shirley Jackson for a narrative that ranges from unsettling to genuinely terrifying." (I did not find the narrative terrifying but otherwise agree.)
β’ The book starts a little too slow, and it ends a little too quickly, but the middle is well-paced.
β’ Race is poorly represented. Some of the characters seem like they were originally intended to be POCs but were changed to white or the author used POC aesthetics. The black characters are black only in description of skin tone.
Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, and Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Pregnancy
Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism
greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
booksofautumn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
keen'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? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Bullying, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Pregnancy
uraveragelesbianreader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Murder and Pregnancy
kris386's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Suicide and Pregnancy
halopink's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Unfortunately the story itself was pretty forgettable. I was really digging this book but wasnβt a big fan of the ending.
Graphic: Child death and Grief
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, and Death of parent
Minor: Self harm and Pregnancy
mapscitiesandsongs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death and Death
Moderate: Bullying, Mental illness, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, and Pregnancy
michaela999'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I had devoured this book.
It was delicious. It was bizzare. It was horrid. And i love it from the first bite.
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
And when she was good
She was very, very good
But when she was bad
She was horrid
She couldnβt remember the first book she had eaten.
What it had tasted like, how it had feltβthe scratch of it as it slid down her throat.
She couldnβt remember why sheβd done it. She must have been a baby, a toddler, ripping pages out of a picture book about a talking stuffed animal.
Had the smell of books calmed her down then, as it did now?
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Pregnancy