blujade's review against another edition
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Classism, Death, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Vomit, Child death, and Cursing
Minor: Drug abuse, Sexism, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, and Sexual content
jamiejanae_6's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- 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
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Gaslighting, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual assault, Rape, Death of parent, Child death, Stalking, Kidnapping, Murder, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Vomit
allisonshewfelt's review against another edition
This was just thriller fluff or filler. Like this is what you read when you don't want to commit to a book and just feel average.
The beginning was suspenseful with the plane crash and Scott's harrowing swim but then the rest of the book delved into the back stories of the characters that I didn't really care about. Scott, JJ and Rachel were the only ones I liked.
It wasn't your typically thrilling, suspenseful read and it dragged. There were a lot of interesting quotes I reflected on so that was a plus and the chapters describing Scott's disaster paintings were so well written but so short and scarce. I wish the whole book had that writing style but that would be weird for a thriller.
I feel like all the back stories took up so much of the book I forgot what the mystery was. And there were so many unnecessary lines about male body parts that I was like "is that really necessary hawley?"
Also I hated how much the news media was in here like I get that media paints people as different things and that was a huge part of the book but it was so realistic like I'm already annoyed with the news I don't wanna read about it.
I already know how it ends with who crashed the plane and why and it was such a stupid reason, not on the author's part but on the character's. I can't tell if the reason is realistic or not but I feel like that's something Kanye would do. Even though I dnfed this, I'm just giving it 3 stars for the painting chapters and the insightful quotes but this thriller's not worth your time.
The beginning was suspenseful with the plane crash and Scott's harrowing swim but then the rest of the book delved into the back stories of the characters that I didn't really care about. Scott, JJ and Rachel were the only ones I liked.
It wasn't your typically thrilling, suspenseful read and it dragged. There were a lot of interesting quotes I reflected on so that was a plus and the chapters describing Scott's disaster paintings were so well written but so short and scarce. I wish the whole book had that writing style but that would be weird for a thriller.
I feel like all the back stories took up so much of the book I forgot what the mystery was. And there were so many unnecessary lines about male body parts that I was like "is that really necessary hawley?"
Also I hated how much the news media was in here like I get that media paints people as different things and that was a huge part of the book but it was so realistic like I'm already annoyed with the news I don't wanna read about it.
I already know how it ends with who crashed the plane and why and it was such a stupid reason, not on the author's part but on the character's. I can't tell if the reason is realistic or not but I feel like that's something Kanye would do. Even though I dnfed this, I'm just giving it 3 stars for the painting chapters and the insightful quotes but this thriller's not worth your time.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Cursing, and Kidnapping
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