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simonlorden's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
I have two pet peeves with this book that I couldn't get over while reading:
1. Idk what Publishers Weekly is on, but an immortal woman living linearly through 300 years is not time travel. This is not a time travel story.
2. The blurb in the book says the present-day timeline is in 2012, but in the book it's actually 2007.
These are both small things, but they felt like kind of lazy mistakes.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder
hexedmaiden's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Blood
Minor: Toxic relationship and Sexual harassment
taelajoon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and War
jamiejanae_6's review against another edition
- 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
3.25
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
madeline_'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? It's complicated
3.0
Things of note: I do not like how each stop in time with Bess resulted in her falling in love, and then having that love dashed. It was repetitive and there is more to a story than being in love (Jack the Ripper was happening and she was more worried about the men in her life!) And, it is a shame that this book fell back on men assaulting the main character over and over as a plot device. It gets boring and is no fun to read.
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Gore and Sexual assault
cattails'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: War
Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Death of parent
Minor: Sexual harassment
phoenixfaie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.75
Graphic: Toxic relationship and Stalking
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, and War
justme_emily's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
barbsantos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
That's not the reason why I gave 3 stars though, the book is kind of meh. Throughout the story we don't feel that the antagonist as bad as the main character feels, we hear about the bad things he does, but the emotion is not there. Also, what is his motivation? Is he bad for sake of being bad? What does he do when he's not after Bess?
The time we spend on Bess past feels like a waste of time, the story is always the same: Bess is happy then Gideon shows up and she disappears again.
Graphic: Child death, Rape, and Sexual assault