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dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
tw: explosions, racism, gun violence, murder, blood
Time loop books are hard to review. This is my second book about time loops and I did like that book quite a bit. The book is Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. Truly a spectacular book and I loved it so much. Anyway, because time loop books have a very limited setting, you're limited on what you can mention because you want to avoid spoilers. So forgive me if this review is a little vague. I’ll do my best.
I can at least talk about the main character without giving too much away. The main character, Anais, was an okay main character. I was on board with her for a good portion of the book. She was strong and brave. She acted in exactly the way I expected a teenager/young adult to act, with the occasional moments of being a whiny teenager, but it didn’t bother me. It was the end when I started to have a problem with her. She became incredibly whiny, like more than she had been because something happened. It really put me off.
Let’s talk about the plot. Time loop books certainly have the potential to get old and repetitive very quickly. That did not happen with this book. Every loop, while sometimes the same, was not boring to read. The way the chapters were done was cool. If some chapters had something different, it went to chapter two. If a loop restarted, it went back to chapter one. It helped me to keep track of what was going on and how many loops we had gone through.
There is one thing I did want to discuss involving a trigger warning. I did mention that there is blood and explosions. But I want to emphasize that there's a lot of blood and explosions. Since it’s a time loop book, the explosions happened pretty frequently and they were described pretty graphically. To me, it seemed almost too graphic for the young adult genre but I’m also old. So I really just want to emphasize the violence in this book so nobody is surprised or upset.
Overall, this was a good book and I did have quite a nice time reading it. The time loop genre is something that I’m really enjoying. Minus the main character disappointing me in the end, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this time loop book. I highly recommend this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Bullying, Classism, Death, and Gore
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