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vagaybond's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
mysterious
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.75
!!! gay rights. non biney :) rep. ghosts who are friends. silly. love this. (protag is presumably a straight woman disclaimer but everybody else is a lil 💅 el gee bee tee)
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Blood, Vomit, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Medical content and Grief
Sophie, the protagonist's best friend and spirit guide, died as a teenager. Other ghosts are abundantly present in the book in various bodily states. There is a ghost child. The protagonist deals with a lot of loneliness and sense of tragedy which seems to overarch most things, but the narrative voice is like a friend retelling to you and it's silly.remusritch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Suuuper fun, had a great time, but dithering between 3.75 and 4 stars - giving it the benefit of the doubt and going for 4.
Really enjoyed the cast of characters and the humour, it’s about the found family and I had a great time.
(Slightly too much vomit for my taste, though, I’d have toned that down but it is what it is)
Really enjoyed the cast of characters and the humour, it’s about the found family and I had a great time.
(Slightly too much vomit for my taste, though, I’d have toned that down but it is what it is)
Graphic: Vomit
hmetwade's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Minor: Death, Drug use, Vomit, and Murder
anna_hepworth'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
2.0
This had potential, and it didn't live up to it. It didn't seem to know if it was a rom com, a grim murder mystery, or something else entirely. The supernatural element was mostly fine, but the rest of it was a mess.
The further through the story, the less I cared. I didn't like the protagonist, I didn't like the way things were half arsed, and mostly the writing wasn't good enough to keep me going. What got me to the end of the book was spite -- was the author really shoving the clue as far under my nose as I thought they were? And yes, they really really were. I was right, the mystery details were really unsubtly foreshadowed, and I wished I'd never bothered.
According to the reading app, this took me two hours and twenty minutes, and while those were almost all on the train, I could have spent that time reading something that gave me pleasure, rather than constant frustration.
If you like farce as the dominant plot driver, you might like this. But you also might find it disappointingly contrived. Even for farce.
The further through the story, the less I cared. I didn't like the protagonist, I didn't like the way things were half arsed, and mostly the writing wasn't good enough to keep me going. What got me to the end of the book was spite -- was the author really shoving the clue as far under my nose as I thought they were? And yes, they really really were. I was right, the mystery details were really unsubtly foreshadowed, and I wished I'd never bothered.
According to the reading app, this took me two hours and twenty minutes, and while those were almost all on the train, I could have spent that time reading something that gave me pleasure, rather than constant frustration.
If you like farce as the dominant plot driver, you might like this. But you also might find it disappointingly contrived. Even for farce.
Graphic: Drug abuse, Vomit, and Alcohol
Moderate: Violence
I'm missing a stack of content warnings, because it was just icky in so many ways. There really didn't need to be multiple morning afters where vomit was involved.norwegianforestreader's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism
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