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The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky

sourspice's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

the_bookish_gal21's review against another edition

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dark 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

3.75

natcommon's review against another edition

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2.0

With Mary Shelley be part of the title, I was thinking something more gothic and literary. However, this focuses more on horror movies and Mary Shelley is barely a part of it. This was a fine read, just not what I was expecting.

walkingpoppet's review against another edition

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

3.75

agxxo's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

I KNEW IT.

The only reason it’s not a full five stars is because the ending was kind of open ended. 
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katied_1030's review against another edition

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adventurous dark 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

4.75

holy shit

macabresloth's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny 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

5.0

librarianryan's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

3.5

 
I waited so long to read this book.  I should have kept waiting.  Rachael was attacked in her home and accidently killed her attacker.  Flash forwards a year, she is in a new school, in a new city, trying to make friends and fit in.  But her trauma has brought on a love of horror movies.  She feels that by watching horror movies she can arm herself or train herself to not be frightened by what happened to her.  She ends up joining a secret society all about the love of a good scare.  The purpose of the club is to scare people with frights that are prank like.  But when people start getting hurt and even dying, this is no longer a prank, its life and death. 
 
This book moved fast.  It has a Gossip Girl crossed with The Game (old Michael Douglas Movie that is even mentioned in the book) feel with the poor kid in the elite private NYC school.  The only character I thought was genuine ends up dead.  The concept is interesting and does work.  The problem is it involves gamification, and that has been done much better.  I do like that the story moves quickly and at no time does the book feel like the 460+ pages it is, and while I did enjoy it, the most memorable part of the entire thing, is the cover.  While this is a standalone, and it does NOT have a cliffhanger, it has been left open for a sequel. 

kendallcmuir's review against another edition

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

4.0

kahlialeshae's review against another edition

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3.0

3.5 overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this! My only complaint was the build up took forever.