fionamatilda's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Terminal illness, Violence, and Vomit
thaliareads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Terminal illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Confinement, and Abandonment
A big part of this book is the fantastical style epidemic that has struck not only the people on the island, but also the plants and animals. This does lead to a lot of death and violence as there is no cure for the disease. There are probably other content warnings associated with this book, but I'm behind on reviews and it's been a couple of months since I read the book, so I probably didn't remember them all.sareidle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Terminal illness, Murder, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Grief, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Animal death, Self harm, and Physical abuse
s_lorenz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Death, Police brutality, Blood, Medical content, Self harm, Suicide, Vomit, Animal death, and Terminal illness
joaura's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
Graphic: Chronic illness and Terminal illness
applejuiceinabox's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Violence, Child death, Body horror, Gore, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic
itsdanibee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Violence
Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Child death, Medical content, Vomit, Grief, and Terminal illness
Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Kidnapping, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Murder
fanboyriot's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Honestly, most of what I didn’t like was the ending. We got no answers for anything really, and it left with absolutely no resolution. It just felt like it was dragged out and then it just ended. The switching POV I normally really like just didn’t work for me; they just seemed too close to one another and a few pages in I’d forget which character it even was.
(First Person POV)
Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Torture, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal death, Confinement, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, and Grief
Moderate: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Ableism, Vomit, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Cursing, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, War, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, and Eating disorder
tiredtori's review
- 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
Graphic: Body horror and Blood
Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Violence, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Gore
Minor: Emotional abuse, Grief, Drug use, Vomit, Death of parent, and Suicide attempt
yukirarin's review against another edition
2.0
This book brought the vibes. Amazing horror and creepy vibes all around, disturbing descriptions of the girls and what the Tox wrecked on their bodies. The body horror in this was amazing and beautifully disturbing.
However, that's about all I'd give this book in all honesty. The first part of the book felt like exposition. Understandable because we of course need to learn about their situation and then we could move on from there right? Except we basically don't ever move on. Literally the book ends once
Spoiler
the girls leave the island. Our main character is likely to just die right after the ending of the novel. We never get an explanation of the Tox, how it came to be and why it changes the girls in the way it does. We literally stopped once we got to somewhere interesting.I do kind of see the feminism, LGBT relationships but also they were so poorly developed and just barely there. I spent more than half of this book waiting for something to happen that nearing the end of it I was counting the amount of pages I had left wondering if something was going to happen in what we had remaining.
Overall, if you're fine with a story going literally nowhere, sure I guess you may be the target audience for this. But for me, the lack of explanation of basically anything at all just makes me wish I left this in the thrift store I found it in.
Graphic: Gore, Terminal illness, and Violence