kayladaila's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Death, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Murder, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Classism, Colonisation, and Drug use
e_flah'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
Spoiler
David breaking up with Stevie, which is a cliffhanger I need answers to desperatelyNine Liars was a solid read and I will happily read Truly Devious books as long as Maureen Johnson wants to write them.
Moderate: Gore, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders
purrpurr's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
another spoiler warning for everything that follows.
Spoiler
every truly devious book can be split into the mystery part and the personal part. the personal part was fine, great even but unfortunately this was the weakest book mystery-wise.i loved the set up but if i may quote my notes: .... peter helped with the whiskey thats all im saying. and although i had many other hunches, this was kind of obvious from the first time it was stated. the fact peter yelled “i’m fine” after throwing up was also so suspicious. and although i loved the time jumps, it just made the whole story slower because stevie had to find everything out after the reader did. just like we could already figure that there was an important hint on one of the analogue pictures – it just took the characters so long to get to that.
so yeah, you could quickly cross out many suspects. for some reason i was instantly sure all the women were innocent. i LOVED sebastian, so i was simply praying he was innocent (and there was loads speaking for that so). oh, and julien was also a given. everyone dissed and disliked him, it would have been too obvious. which leaves yash and peter. the trauma poor yash probably has from this week. horrible. (thinking back to when my notes said: peter and yash <3 married haha guess not)
one more thing: did we find out what the button was? /gen
am i tripping right now or did stevie never tell us. i thought the button was code for the clothes peter had been wearing but i guess not. what was the button? if anyone paid enough attention, please enlighten me.
now we’ll get into the recurring characters. my darlings. although, maybe not in this book – looking at you stevie. i mean yes, lesson learned, but she was so mean and heartless to her friends a few times throughout the book. everything is david, david, david and where did that get you, huh, stevie? (they were NOT on a break, he is in the wrong).
while we have another david L, we have only nate Ws, obviously. except he spent 5K on collage applications, i guess. (i’m baffled this is a thing in the states). apropos being baffled about culture: stevie could have been a little less startled about british and european culture, i know she is smarter than this. shoutout to david though, who answered all her questions about behaviour patterns with “well, they’re british”.
HAPPY COMING OUT NATE ILU AND U DESERVE THE WORLD!
Graphic: Murder and Violence
Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Death of parent, Outing, and Toxic friendship
allyem_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I liked this significantly more than Box in the Woods, mainly because of the mystery. It's almost like a closed-room mystery, an isolated location with a limited number of suspects. It was much more intriguing to me overall. Once again, I'm not loving Stevie. She's way too impulsive and does some pretty awful things in order to feel that investigation high. And the worst part is, she doesn't face any real consequences? Like, her friends are upset with her, but they still back her up in her lies, and the adults in charge of her are none the wiser, so it's like she never gets her just desserts. I mean, yes, she does go through some very not good stuff in this book in particular, but it's all irrelevant to the shit she's stirred up herself. And I just think a 17-year-old should face more consequences for doing the stuff she does.
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Murder
There is no truly graphic details of murder, but it is talked through and mentioned quite a bitbutterflygirlkmc's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Death
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol
betweentheshelves's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I will say, I don't like David as a love interest. Personally, I don't think he and Stevie have good chemistry and I think Stevie can do better. But that's just my opinion! The mystery in this one was a good twisty one, which is one of the main reasons to read this series, anyway.
All in all, a fun addition to the series, and I'm sure that will be another coming at some point!
Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Sexual content, Child death, and Infidelity
Minor: Cursing, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism
katisreading'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
4.25
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Violence
Minor: Sexual content
quizzle99'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: Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence
korpney's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Murder, Blood, and Alcohol
bookishlysophie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use