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browsingthebooks's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child abuse and Toxic friendship
Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Excrement, Medical content, Trafficking, Murder, and Pregnancy
This was actually a really clean book as compared to a lot of contemporary mystery novels. Only a couple of curses in the whole thing. No sexual content. Most of the warnings I listed as minor were just references.gillianengelbrecht's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Murder
Minor: Bullying, Miscarriage, Suicide, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship
booksjessreads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
When I bought this book, I expected it to be <i>purely</i> emails, texts etc. with a page at the end telling you if you got it right, but this is not what you get. Emails and texts make a large chunk of it, but you do actually see the correspondence of the people trying to solve the crime alongside you and their texts to one another summarise the events that have just happened, as well as posing questions that help you along the way. You are not completely left to your own devices. It is really interesting to see their thought processes alongside your own.
Each group of characters has their own subplot going on, and they all intermingle in their own way. In the beginning it was quite hard to piece together who was who and what subplot belonged to which family/set of relations. However, when you become engrossed in the book it completely encapsulates you and it does start to make sense. I think this is what knocked me from giving it 5 stars - there were too many characters in it for me. However, I think this in itself was carried off so well and so realistic because real-life crimes involve a lot of people in the periphery and so despite this, it was so cleverly done.
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Medical content, Murder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Addiction, Miscarriage, Excrement, and Alcohol