Reviews

The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

nyahraine22's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

mrsbooknerd's review against another edition

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4.0

This book sucked me in and I could not put it down. I'm not sure if it was the characters, the Mystery, the writing style or a combination, but I just found it intoxicating.

I think the final publication may be more polished, there were a few sentences/phrases/descriptions which which were repeated, identically in some instances, and in this ARC version I found it hard to note when new sections were starting/ we were swapping narrator.

It wasn't full of jaw dropping twists or major drama but it was compulsive.

angelicistic's review

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5.0

WHO ENDS A BOOK LIKE THAT

wqw_bookclub's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Mom = 4.8, Tita = 3.5, Liza = 5.0

teamparkin's review

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mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

rachelmfisher's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

yy71's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense 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? It's complicated

3.75

ashleyinjune's review

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dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

littlemissanalog's review against another edition

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dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Multiple timelines

Several twists

Hard to pay attention- slow, slowburn, long monologues sometimes; drags at times (to me)

Cliff hanger; ending guts of a cliff; clipped

Clever(?), creative (?)

Slow read so I sort of stopped paying attention to just finish it and I think that worked against me come the ending and the late “ultimate reveal”… I was left confused bc I burned through it to get it read and also bc author leaves us on an edge

websterworks's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0