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pjdotcom's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, Child death, and Death
Minor: Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Grief, and Terminal illness
_nutella52'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
4.0
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Grief, Suicide, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Terminal illness, Car accident, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Body horror
Minor: Sexual harassment, Medical content, and Racism
knunderb's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Child death
Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, and Cancer
Minor: Racism and Sexual content
freckles's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I thought the sexual jokes about Wallace were a bit much and uncomfortable at times, though.
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Suicide, Child death, Murder, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Death of parent, Racism, and Rape
sunsorbit's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
- “The Manager” is…. I really expected a cosmic being of world and reality changing power to have a cooler name. At first I thought the whole “Oh yeah we can’t mess up or the Manager will come” bit was funny and a cheeky play on typical ghost/afterlife/etc. tropes, but the fact that the Manager calls himself the Manager just felt too meta and jokey to me and not in line with his described character.
- The whole hook situation was…. Considering how lighthearted and funny the book begins with the starting situation between Mei and Wallace, the moment the hook is brought in, I could not stop thinking about the hooks from Dead by Daylight. The way they were described felt unnerving and seemed painful, and the fact that it wasn’t just a “character doesn’t know the proper terminology for something so keeps referring to it in a funny/clunky alternate way”-situation but that everyone called it a hook, and the line connected to it a cable was so janky and unfitting to the other themes of the book, everytime it came up I thought about what a stupid term that was. It would have been so easy to connect this to the tea house with any other String of Fate-esque symbology, yet, alas. We got a Hook and a Cable.
I disliked and found it absolutely baffling how the Manager had a totally random last minute (or rather second, that’s how quickly it happens) change of heart and just suddenly stopped caring about yet another set of vital rules to his whole thing on top of suddenly being kind for absolutely no reason at all when he had made a point to be uncaring and not understanding before? It just came out of nowhere, and ended up making the time constraint an entirely void and inconsequential plot device that served zero purpose except to speed-run the relationship between Wallace and Hugo when it just didn’t need to be that way. I don’t get it. The stakes were high for absolutely no reason, all of this could’ve been explored in a much more interesting way if the character of the Manager had been written consistently and logically. Instead, he ended up being an annoying outside plot driving device, and not even a very good one.
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Suicide
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Mental illness, and Murder
The animal death is not graphic in a violent way. There’s just a explicit (even if very kind and emotional) description of assisted pet death by a vet.elijah__'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Grief and Death
Moderate: Murder, Suicide, Animal death, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness
Minor: Racism
kyekoi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Update: I still think about this book at least once a week and wish I could erase it from my memory just to experience reading it for the first time again.
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Suicide and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Racism, Animal death, and Death of parent
kimtazo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Grief, Animal death, Child death, Homophobia, Suicide, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Death
fiveredhens's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Racism and Cursing
stampest's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Death of parent and Child death
Minor: Gore, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Racism, Terminal illness, Sexism, and Violence