kellyhav's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
remigves's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- 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
3.75
anntraniece's review
3.0
Very interesting read. It keeps you engaged the entire time with the plot, the characters, and how the story unfolds. It has a lot of elements that I wasn't expecting, but I enjoyed it.
jlove731's review
4.0
This book was down right crazy. Insanity really. It is so twisted. There were so many moments where I was like wtf?! Where does she come up with this stuff? That being said, this book was fantastically written. Dia certaintly has a mind of her own and she uses it to suck her readers in to a world that is most defiantly its own.
We start off with Kit and Fancy Cordelle, who are well the Bonesaw Killer's daughters. And yes, they are just as twisted. They start to find that they themselves have their own powers, and begin to use them for good... so they believe. As the story progresses, Kit and Fancy start to fall for Ilan and Gabe, whom are the son's of their father's last murder. As everything starts to weave together and fall apart, are things as they always believed them to be... or is there more?
I have to admit, I bought this book because I ADORED "Bleeding Violet" and I thought I would ADORE all of "Slice of Cherry" as well. Don't get me wrong, I loved Slice of Cherry, I thought it was brilliant, but that being said I had to get into it first... and that didn't happen until about 200 or so pages in. The first half of this book is so twisted, it's almost creepy. After you get past the super twisted, the plot picked up for me and I whipped through it so fast because I HAD to know what was going to happen. Another reason, is that the cover and the back is STUNNING. It defiantly win's one of my favorite cover awards.
Kit and Fancy are killers to say the least. They are so alike, yet so different at the same time. And I love how Dia brought music and art into the book... love love love. Another thing I loved was that she put Hanna and Wyatt into a scene!!! (From Bleeding Violet) Big smiley face! Ilan and Gabe were fantastic characters as well, they had so much going on within each of them and I loved finding out their story and hurting with them. Also, Franken... I was so happy at how his story worked out, I liked him! haha.
This book is most certaintly a tale of it's own. You will find nothing like it, I promise you. If you like twistedness, family relationships, finding out who you are, romance, and oh did I mention killing? Well this book is for you.
Before I go, one of my favorite quotes from the book:
"The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn't equal a perfect life." - PG 120
We start off with Kit and Fancy Cordelle, who are well the Bonesaw Killer's daughters. And yes, they are just as twisted. They start to find that they themselves have their own powers, and begin to use them for good... so they believe. As the story progresses, Kit and Fancy start to fall for Ilan and Gabe, whom are the son's of their father's last murder. As everything starts to weave together and fall apart, are things as they always believed them to be... or is there more?
I have to admit, I bought this book because I ADORED "Bleeding Violet" and I thought I would ADORE all of "Slice of Cherry" as well. Don't get me wrong, I loved Slice of Cherry, I thought it was brilliant, but that being said I had to get into it first... and that didn't happen until about 200 or so pages in. The first half of this book is so twisted, it's almost creepy. After you get past the super twisted, the plot picked up for me and I whipped through it so fast because I HAD to know what was going to happen. Another reason, is that the cover and the back is STUNNING. It defiantly win's one of my favorite cover awards.
Kit and Fancy are killers to say the least. They are so alike, yet so different at the same time. And I love how Dia brought music and art into the book... love love love. Another thing I loved was that she put Hanna and Wyatt into a scene!!! (From Bleeding Violet) Big smiley face! Ilan and Gabe were fantastic characters as well, they had so much going on within each of them and I loved finding out their story and hurting with them. Also, Franken... I was so happy at how his story worked out, I liked him! haha.
This book is most certaintly a tale of it's own. You will find nothing like it, I promise you. If you like twistedness, family relationships, finding out who you are, romance, and oh did I mention killing? Well this book is for you.
Before I go, one of my favorite quotes from the book:
"The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn't equal a perfect life." - PG 120
leigh_reidelberger's review
3.0
I don't know why, but I s-t-r-u-g-g-l-e-d to get through this book, which is extra disappointing because I had been *so* excited to read it. It shouldn't have taken as long as it did to read, but I just couldn't stay interested for more than a few pages. I did finish it though, mostly out of sheer stubbornness and I was legit curious how it was going to end.
I love the town, Portero, and the 'special' strangeness it holds. Definitely a lot of magical realism moments. I really loved the traditions that existed within Kit & Fancy's life, like going to the Cherry Glade and how their abilities are passed down through the generations. There was a lot of really beautiful imagery, especially within the Happy Place. It's like Dia Reeves knows how to write sentences that appear HD in your mind movie.
I really liked the relationship b/w the sisters, and I really loved how they were just so unapologetic.
I love the town, Portero, and the 'special' strangeness it holds. Definitely a lot of magical realism moments. I really loved the traditions that existed within Kit & Fancy's life, like going to the Cherry Glade and how their abilities are passed down through the generations. There was a lot of really beautiful imagery, especially within the Happy Place. It's like Dia Reeves knows how to write sentences that appear HD in your mind movie.
I really liked the relationship b/w the sisters, and I really loved how they were just so unapologetic.
catpingu's review
4.0
I gave this book 4 stars, because I'm just a little upset that Hanna and Wyatt aren't featured enough in this book...I love how Fanny and Ilan are together, and that Fanny may be mentally unstable and violent and Ilan is just a mass of bloody, gory hotness!!! m.m
kblincoln's review
4.0
Slice of Cherry continues Reeves' foray in the small Texas town of Portrero; a town of black-clothed residents who deal daily with nightmare monsters and doors into strange worlds.
Unlike Bleeding Violet, this book deals more with the monsters people can be, blurring the lines between horrific nightmarish creatures and human evil.
Fancy and Kit are daughters of the infamous Bonesaw Killer of Portrero, caught red-handed by his wife and now on deathrow.
They have a deep, sisterly, bond, and while one wants to open up and learn more about the world, the other one wants to stay a child and keep her sister with her forever.
Threatening their world are two things: a pair of brothers with gory secrets of their own, and the eminent threat that the sisters' own murderous activities will come to light, curdling their mothers' love forever.
Fancy and Kit love blood and evisceration as much as their father did, and while they try to focus their energies on desering bullies, the growth and then containment of their bloodlust is the creepy, compelling factor that drives this book forward.
Just like Bleeding Violet, you find yourself alternately horrified, repelled, annoyed, sympathetic, and suprised by what Fancy and Kit get up to both with their knives, their magic, and their treatment of the boys whose father the Bonesaw Killer murdered.
But what gets you and keeps you long after the last page is turned are the imaginatively gruesome images sprinkled throughout the book, both in the preface-like Fancy Dream Diary entries before each chapter and in the magical "happy place" world Fancy can control.
Pedophiliac rapists growing into trees that grow skins, statuesque people carrying their heads with exploding eyes, and the lingering deaths of the sisters' victims.
This book is not for the faint-hearted. But if you're brave enough to chance a dive into the darkest of human impulses, and look upon our primal needs with unjudging eyes, then Slice of Cherry will not fail to satisfy particular appetites.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Steak tartare served with a fresh, raw horseradish garnish, spicy, pungent on your tongue with a guilty-savoring of the meaty flavor.
Unlike Bleeding Violet, this book deals more with the monsters people can be, blurring the lines between horrific nightmarish creatures and human evil.
Fancy and Kit are daughters of the infamous Bonesaw Killer of Portrero, caught red-handed by his wife and now on deathrow.
They have a deep, sisterly, bond, and while one wants to open up and learn more about the world, the other one wants to stay a child and keep her sister with her forever.
Threatening their world are two things: a pair of brothers with gory secrets of their own, and the eminent threat that the sisters' own murderous activities will come to light, curdling their mothers' love forever.
Fancy and Kit love blood and evisceration as much as their father did, and while they try to focus their energies on desering bullies, the growth and then containment of their bloodlust is the creepy, compelling factor that drives this book forward.
Just like Bleeding Violet, you find yourself alternately horrified, repelled, annoyed, sympathetic, and suprised by what Fancy and Kit get up to both with their knives, their magic, and their treatment of the boys whose father the Bonesaw Killer murdered.
But what gets you and keeps you long after the last page is turned are the imaginatively gruesome images sprinkled throughout the book, both in the preface-like Fancy Dream Diary entries before each chapter and in the magical "happy place" world Fancy can control.
Pedophiliac rapists growing into trees that grow skins, statuesque people carrying their heads with exploding eyes, and the lingering deaths of the sisters' victims.
This book is not for the faint-hearted. But if you're brave enough to chance a dive into the darkest of human impulses, and look upon our primal needs with unjudging eyes, then Slice of Cherry will not fail to satisfy particular appetites.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Steak tartare served with a fresh, raw horseradish garnish, spicy, pungent on your tongue with a guilty-savoring of the meaty flavor.
absolvtions's review
dark
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
- 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? Yes
3.25
tatesomne's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
5.0
I've never read a book like this! There's horror. There's magic and there are people that look like me. Will be reading more by Dia!