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melliedm'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? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Sexual content
keen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Violence, Murder, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Child abuse and Toxic relationship
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Domestic abuse
connorcashcolbert's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse and Homophobia
kylenestrella's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child abuse
aromarrie's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
i am....utterly obsessed with the author's writing in this. i'm obsessed with stories with unreliable narrators and characters who are deeply fucked up and ambigious endings that feel like drowning because that's all the story is, it's these characters drowning in a death of their own making because as one character said here, death is something everyone carries with them, and it's because awareness of death is not like a logic that grows in all directions at once, but a condition that is always with us, waiting to float like a body to the surface . . . because death is like memory and memory is like love. and they are all three like a snake swallowing its own tail. becoming itself to destroy itself.
the story at first really just baffled me because of the tone of it, the way these characters were interacting in these dual timelines that clash so harshly and felt like some psychological mindgame as being the reader, i had to try to put the pieces together of something that was irrevocably broken in todd's mind. i can't even be sure to say that this story is for todd's to tell because it feels like there were so many fragments hidden that only certain other characters could really help unfold; such as like with anthony, jack, elaine, and livia's voices, to name a few.
the way the story was split into different parts was absolute genius but it will never live up to the utter shock that was the end of part 1 and i'll be carrying that surprise all the way to the end of the year because this story wasn't even supposed to happen. i never knew it existed a little over 24 hours ago as i'm writing this, and now it's going to be stuck in my head forever??
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Murder, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Animal death and Violence
allispin's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death