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You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here: Winner of the Beryl Bainbridge First Time Author Award by Frances Macken

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cana_tori's review against another edition

It started to bum me out too much. There was a lot of tearing down each other between characters and it was hard to follow why… like people just being mean for mean’s sake. So I guess I’m just too soft to have seen it through. Genuinely just bummed me out, even though, that was probably the point, lol.

alittleemu's review against another edition

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fast-paced

3.75

mish_k's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

kae_itzme's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

rianna_russell's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

lea_shiny's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Written well, I liked the prose and it's refreshing when you get an unlikeable protagonist. I don't have to like someone to want to read about them.

While the prose moved rating from 3 star to 3.5 star, ultimately I feel like there were too many things introduced that went nowhere, and the story kind of petered out.

I need a little more time to digest and think about this though. It just didn't quite hit for me.

> To be fair, I also started this and Penance by Eliza Clark the same week, read them both for a few days before I kept getting the girls in each book confused and had to put this aside to finish Penance first.