brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Moderate: Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Child death
Minor: Cursing
theragereader's review against another edition
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Mental illness, and Death
Minor: Transphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Medical content
nerdkitten's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.25
Graphic: Ableism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Cursing, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Grief, Blood, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Violence, Medical content, and War
Minor: Death of parent, Mental illness, Alcohol, Confinement, and Drug use
gattolinos_nerdy_nook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
For a first book in a series this feels weak. It is not a bad read but it also doesn't stand out, and some of the cooler plot points don't come in until later in the series. It was actually darker than I remembered, but that along doesn't really make it stand out in the low stakes and low investment main plot. I also struggled with Daniel as one of the love interests and the main one. Now that I think about it I also didn't like him when I read this series before.
I will give the series this, for a debut novel it is not the worst and when it came out the market us in it's boom for these kind of books. I feel the series also gets better as it goes with some different plot points from what was in the market at the time. So whilst the first book was kind of weak and has a bad love interest the rest of the series does get better, or maybe it is that nostalgia finally kicking in.
Graphic: Murder, Death, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Violence
veskumelooni's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.25
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Violence
gonnachangethislater's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.25
Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Child death
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcohol, Confinement, Death of parent, Self harm, Stalking, Gaslighting, Grief, and Violence
bitterseason's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence
Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Stalking
honeyland's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.25
The ending of the book is extremely anticlimactic...and even here the main character has no drive whatsoever to survive or do anything against the people trying to hurt her. One of the view likeable characters dies but it's really just mentioned in 2 sentences when she's the one person the protagonist developed an actual relationship towards. Main character really just doesn't feel anything abt it which is mainly caused by the poor writing of the autor towards the end, it almost feels like they were trying to end the book as quickly as possible. The death wasn't sad at all even though it probably should have been. After this book was recommended to me quite a lot, reading it was pretty disappointing. However, it's quite the simple and quick read. Shallow, nothing deep, but also just not enough to really make me want to read even one of the other books of the series.
Moderate: Death
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
savilizabeths'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? No
4.0
Moderate: Death and Fire/Fire injury
itsreyz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Murder
Minor: Blood, Bullying, Death, and Grief