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ronan_lesh's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse
cassidy's review against another edition
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Ahh idk this book had me sitting at the edge of my seat the whole time. There was something about the deadpan narration that drew me to it though.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Medical trauma
suzyreadsbooks's review against another edition
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
3.0
gifted to me by knopf!
a good beach read. it really hits the ground running. weird, choppy, propulsive despite the lulls in plot. really funny moments, really tender moments about grief and family, lots of ridiculousness. you can easily breeze through it all, even the parts veering on horror, because Allison’s narration jumps all over the place due to her very recent brain injury.
but i am tired of authors deciding to prove a character’s unlikeability by having them make random microaggressions! and let's stop using mental illness as the antagonist’s motivations!
a good beach read. it really hits the ground running. weird, choppy, propulsive despite the lulls in plot. really funny moments, really tender moments about grief and family, lots of ridiculousness. you can easily breeze through it all, even the parts veering on horror, because Allison’s narration jumps all over the place due to her very recent brain injury.
but i am tired of authors deciding to prove a character’s unlikeability by having them make random microaggressions! and let's stop using mental illness as the antagonist’s motivations!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug use and Racism
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
bookbunny's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
captainolyareads's review against another edition
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
[Thank you to Knopf Publishing Group for an finished reading copy of Hurricane Girl, available everywhere on June 14th].
Let me preface this review by saying this novel is the first book to make my 'best books of 2022' and the first this year to receive five stars from me.
After breaking things off with her boyfriend, Allison drives down to North Carolina, eager to spend time on the small beachfront property she recently purchased. She's only there for a week and a half when a Category 3 hurricane wipes it off the map. Not eager to spend another night in her hotel room, she goes home with a local cameraman. It's the wrong decision, she knows. In the morning light, when he smashes a glass vase over her head, the decision looks even worse. Her head wound still fresh, she drives to her mother's house in New Jersey. Her mother is as horrified as the rest of us and takes Allison to the hospital. The bad decisions accumulate. She ends up moving in with her brain surgeon because he has a rooftop swimming pool. Side note: a swimming pool doesn't make up for the fact that he lives in NEW JERSEY, ALLISON. Equal parts intoxicating and horrifying, the author does a fantastic job of making the reader care about a character who doesn't always care about herself.
Let me preface this review by saying this novel is the first book to make my 'best books of 2022' and the first this year to receive five stars from me.
After breaking things off with her boyfriend, Allison drives down to North Carolina, eager to spend time on the small beachfront property she recently purchased. She's only there for a week and a half when a Category 3 hurricane wipes it off the map. Not eager to spend another night in her hotel room, she goes home with a local cameraman. It's the wrong decision, she knows. In the morning light, when he smashes a glass vase over her head, the decision looks even worse. Her head wound still fresh, she drives to her mother's house in New Jersey. Her mother is as horrified as the rest of us and takes Allison to the hospital. The bad decisions accumulate. She ends up moving in with her brain surgeon because he has a rooftop swimming pool. Side note: a swimming pool doesn't make up for the fact that he lives in NEW JERSEY, ALLISON. Equal parts intoxicating and horrifying, the author does a fantastic job of making the reader care about a character who doesn't always care about herself.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Minor: Sexual content
leahrosiee's review
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I don’t know how I would give this book a true rating but for pure entertainment? All the stars.
Dating a rich doctor for his rooftop swimming pool is something I would do any day. Go Allison.
Dating a rich doctor for his rooftop swimming pool is something I would do any day. Go Allison.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Alcohol