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crisscrossedshelves's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
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? It's complicated
3.5
frmeden's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Death, and Grief
Minor: Self harm, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment
literalmint's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
12rhys23's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
erinlf_24's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.75
rampionscaptain's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
nclcaitlin's review against another edition
2.25
Stranger Things meets Ghostbusters meets Boy’s Life.
This short book had a lot of hype for being a moving, profound read where the horror isn’t the forefront.
Perhaps it is because I did this by audio, but I felt lost throughout as the narrative jumps between recounting the narrator’s childhood with his uncle and friends and the Saturday Night Club and his melancholic musings as an adult practicing as a surgeon.
<b>Reality never changes. Only our recollections of it do. Whenever a moment passes, we pass along with it into the realm of memory. And in that realm, geometries change. Contours shift, shades lighten, objectives dissolve. Memory becomes what we need it to be.
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For me, there just wasn’t much for me to latch onto. The characters felt hollow and the ultimate twist which I am sure is what makes this so profoundly popular and moving for others, I saw coming from the start.
I do think this would make a great adaption.
jenikki's review against another edition
5.0
This book is everything—if you liked Stranger Things, you'll love this. Set in the '80s in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the book features kids who are the same age I was in that year, and the book even reads like a YA book that was written in the '80s, so I was going to fall in love with it immediately. Jake's uncle owns a tacky ghost shop in Niagara Falls and talks Jake's friends into joining a Saturday Night Ghost Club, where he takes them to haunted spots in Niagara Falls at precisely the moment where legend has the ghosts appearing, tells them the haunted story behind each site, and then the children's overactive imaginations take over. Interspersed with the stories in the 80s are the stories of Jake in the present day, now a neurosurgeon, describing how the human brain works, how it can convince the body of things that aren't happening, and where mental illness begins. And eventually these two strands come together. This book is beautifully and brilliantly told. Also the cover makes it look like an old scuffed-up library book. I LOVED IT.