Reviews

Things I liked:

I have mixed feelings about this book. There’s things I loved and things the author did that just really got under my skin. Maybe because it was a YA it just wasn’t giving what I needed.

-fast paced, tense, needed to find out what happened
-interesting premise/love a good con
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Things that I didn’t like:
-I feel like Nora is supposed to be a morally grey character but I think it was overdone and she never actually worked on her flaws much minus one therapy session we got a peek into
-give us more about Lee!! She was my fav but we just got vague hints about her past and that bothered me
- the author using trauma as basically three characters whole personalities. like, I get it but it just seems far fetched to me
- moral platitudes and virtue signaling from the author that gets gets old fast. I feel like she just took a bunch of sensitive topics and threw them together and it just left a lot unsaid. like, if you’re going to write about these things you should take the time to flesh them out properly and not just throw every single sensitive topic ever in for the sake of being “woke” or whatever.
-open ending that left a lot to question. At least there was assured mutual destruction that makes it more palatable but still, would have been nice to have it wrapped up
- a love triangle with 0 hard feelings or jealousy? I don’t know, it’s a little too trope-y and convenient for me

Content Warnings

knee1230's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book so much! I loved the pace of it and how it read like an action movie. It has some really dark moments, but the redemption arc of overcoming Nora’s troubling past is adventurous and inspiring -to an extent.

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aditidxy's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

the identity aspect was interesting but not enough to make up for the rest of the book, the situation was clearly meant to be tense but it just didn't feel that effective for the most part, in general the writing didn't draw me in like it intended to? like it was meant to be fast-paced and intense but i felt like it was dragging
lgbtq representation was nice to see, but the diversity wasn't rly there apart from that.. !

yay3's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

rikajewellee's review against another edition

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3.0

i was so excited to read it and it was just... meh.
the themes explored here are important, don't get me wrong, but the storyline isn't exactly my thing.

k4yc33's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

anon13's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.75

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