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rljenn's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder and Death
Moderate: Chronic illness and Death of parent
versmonesprit's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
0.25
I end up not liking a lot of the books I read, but it’s not often they make me furious enough to twitch and tremble. #StrangersWeKnow is such a terrible book that it has accomplished exactly that.
Nothing about it is half-good, not even half-OK. The idea is unoriginal, the narration is so flat that by the time you’ve gotten halfway through all you can feel is overwhelming boredom, the characters are one-dimensional, the dialogues are synthetic… It’s filled with so many plot holes that it’s a miracle there’s any fabric left to it at all. The supposed twists are obvious the very second an inconsistency shows up, because subtlety is a lost art and I guess the author presumes the readers to be dumb?
As if subpar writing and stagnancy weren’t enough, the book insists on always telling and never ever showing things. The cherry on top is how everything is reiterated at least twice in Ivy’s chapters, even though we have just ‘seen’ them happen, even though we have read that exact same line AT LEAST 5 times already.
This is one of the worst books I have ever suffered through. Don’t waste precious time on this.
[DRC provided by #NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer.]
Nothing about it is half-good, not even half-OK. The idea is unoriginal, the narration is so flat that by the time you’ve gotten halfway through all you can feel is overwhelming boredom, the characters are one-dimensional, the dialogues are synthetic… It’s filled with so many plot holes that it’s a miracle there’s any fabric left to it at all. The supposed twists are obvious the very second an inconsistency shows up, because subtlety is a lost art and I guess the author presumes the readers to be dumb?
As if subpar writing and stagnancy weren’t enough, the book insists on always telling and never ever showing things. The cherry on top is how everything is reiterated at least twice in Ivy’s chapters, even though we have just ‘seen’ them happen, even though we have read that exact same line AT LEAST 5 times already.
This is one of the worst books I have ever suffered through. Don’t waste precious time on this.
[DRC provided by #NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer.]
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Death
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