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growintogardens's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
belladonnashrike's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
reminded me a lot of of gillian flynn’s work.
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Murder
Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Drug use and Alcohol
mkzach's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
spooderman's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Ableism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Medical content, Car accident, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy
toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition
- 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
3.0
This book is about a bachelorette party gone wrong: murder, mayhem, and spooky shit ensues. I have quite a few complaints about this one but as per usual, I want to start with positives because I like to be generous and also because I did like this book, there were just things I wanted from it that I didn't get. I thought the writing was lovely. Ruth Ware is very obviously great at building suspense, setting the scene for horror, and writing tense scenes between characters. Some of my favorite scenes were scenes where characters were fighting or bitching about one another. I lived for the drama of it all.
My main complaint is this: Reese Witherspoon says on the cover blurb that I'm going to be "really scared." I was not. This book undoubtedly had its moments where I was very invested in figuring out what happened, but there were such long stretches of pages where I felt that things were getting repetitive and if something didn't happen soon, this was going to go into the DNF graveyard. However, a lot of times, the moment I had that thought, something would happen; it just was never scary enough to make me feel anything. I also felt like after a certain point, it was really easy for me to put 2 and 2 together and figure out what the big twist was, which made the whole climax kind of a slog for me.
All in all, I do give this 3 stars because I think it was beautifully written, but perhaps not a favorite story for me specifically.
Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Abortion, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol
library_of_alexandra_'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: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Medical trauma, Car accident, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
ellensmith's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
toribrake17's review against another edition
- 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? N/A
3.5
Graphic: Violence
sonygaystation's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Suicide attempt
Minor: Sexual content, Suicide, Abortion, and Pregnancy
unboxedjack's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Abortion