ccryptid's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- 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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence
Moderate: Rape, Child death, Chronic illness, Racism, and Xenophobia
Minor: Rape
ap1's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Gore
mitacaparos's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror and Violence
helloooooooooooooooooo's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Violence
Moderate: Xenophobia
Minor: Drug use
angelsinthesnow's review
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- 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
- I don’t like Nita
- Her stupid fucking moral dilemmas
- Hypocrite
- Plot was uninteresting
- Nothing original happened
- Kinda boring
- The kiss was good
- I like kovit
- There’s something really big missing
- The atmosphere I liked is just not there anymore
- Second book syndrome
- Yay communication
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Gore
vaniavela's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder and Violence
Moderate: Blood and Torture
poppywarphan's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- 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
4.0
"I have rules to not break me.” Nita’s voice was soft. “You have rules to not break you. But I think we need rules to keep from breaking us.”
I'm obsessed with them. 😖 They need to work on communication skills though...
These have potential to become my favorite non fantasy(ish) books. I'll admit I didn't like Nita as much as in the first book. She seems to have gotten a case of chronic stupidity. I actually liked Kovit much more. He had more depth. Since she caused that mass murdering she's become more comfortable with killing and spent most of the book going/wanting to go on murder sprees. At some points others try to stop her because it only made situations worse.
She hadn’t fixed anything. She’d made everything ten times worse.
Their conversation was over, and Nita was left feelingdeeply uneasy, like she’d made a terrible mistake.
"You know, Nita, murder doesn’t solve every problem.”
"Murder isn’t the answer.”
And there, quietly, with the sound of an innocent man’s screams in the background, being tortured because of her mistakes, she began to weep.
Nita was also quite a hypocrite and annoyed the hell out of me with her stupid brash decisions. I admit I thought this book would be another victim of the 2nd book syndrome and was prepared to give it 3 stars but the last quarter blew me away.
Back to the asexuality question. I can definitely see it being true. I don't think I noticed any signs of sexual attraction. The romantic attraction was also questionable
I'm obsessed with them. 😖 They need to work on communication skills though...
These have potential to become my favorite non fantasy(ish) books. I'll admit I didn't like Nita as much as in the first book. She seems to have gotten a case of chronic stupidity. I actually liked Kovit much more. He had more depth. Since she caused that mass murdering she's become more comfortable with killing and spent most of the book going/wanting to go on murder sprees. At some points others try to stop her because it only made situations worse.
She hadn’t fixed anything. She’d made everything ten times worse.
Their conversation was over, and Nita was left feelingdeeply uneasy, like she’d made a terrible mistake.
"You know, Nita, murder doesn’t solve every problem.”
"Murder isn’t the answer.”
And there, quietly, with the sound of an innocent man’s screams in the background, being tortured because of her mistakes, she began to weep.
Nita was also quite a hypocrite and annoyed the hell out of me with her stupid brash decisions. I admit I thought this book would be another victim of the 2nd book syndrome and was prepared to give it 3 stars but the last quarter blew me away.
Back to the asexuality question. I can definitely see it being true. I don't think I noticed any signs of sexual attraction. The romantic attraction was also questionable
Spoiler
despite them kissing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Murder
Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Racism
mparra's review
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Trafficking, and Violence
billies_not_so_secret_diary's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- 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
4.0
This is book two of the series, and it picked up after the first book. It was better than the first: a lot more details about the characters, quite a bit of funnies, and the Doctor Who reference was the bomb!
It was a very quick read (listen). I had a hard time walking away from the story, I had to know what was going to happen. While there were quite a bit of repetitive phrases, lines, and reminders that she wanted to dissect a body and go to school and be the best, the story was a lot more to-the-point even though there were the unnecessary ramblings.
One of the new characters was interesting, but the MC, I can’t decide if I should like her or hate her, but I would be very afraid of her if our paths crossed. It's a nice change for the MC, while being a good guy, they are also a very bad guy.
Of course, there is violence, blood, gore, murder, etc, so I don't think it's appropriate for readers under 14.
I would be giving this book 5 stars, but there was way too much repetitiveness, and it took some enjoyment from the story!
4 stars.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Torture, and Violence
solarlin's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
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