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erishti's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
2.75
When I finished this book my first thought was "Finally!". The authors note was really well written and I loved the idea of the book but in reality it bored me most of the time. Throughout the book there are intense moments where you can't put it down, but it feels like the authors were trying to do that with the whole book. Towards the end of the book I was so tired of feeling this weird tense and chokingly dark atmosphere that it made the ACTUAL tense scenes of the book less impactful. I would've loved to have a moment to breathe but it felt like a vampire had bitten into my neck and was just dangling there the whole time. This is coming from someone who's never read Dracula.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Medical content, and Murder
Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Gore, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Torture and Stalking
neni's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. The dark and gothic mystery vibes were on point, and the narrative and writing styles were quite similar to Bram Stoker's Dracula which helped put me in that headspace, which I believe was the point. The only thing I have to point out is that the story was way longer than necessary, pretty much the first half of the book could have been condensed in about 100 pages, I sometimes found myself struggling to get through it because there were chapters were nothing was happening. The second half, where things started happening and the mysteries started to get solved, was entertaining and gripping, and the ending surprised me in a good way. I think it was well executed overall, just a tad bit too long
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail