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Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

5 reviews

matcha_cat's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

ria_bee_3c's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Transphobia, and Sexual harassment

itsheyfay's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Suicide, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Racism and Kidnapping

epeolatri's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This has very easily become one of my new favorite novels. I loved the author’s writing style and humor. Each character was amazing and fucked up in their own way. Every time I thought I had it figured out something even crazier happened, right up until the last sentence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content and Torture

e_flah's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

Meddling Kids was a mixed experience -- the nostalgic Scooby Doo vibes were great and there were lots of truly bonkers shenanigans that felt true to the source material. On the other hand, the writing style was experimental in a way that I often found a bit frustrating. Meddling Kids is a book where the prose is basically a character itself as it demands to be acknowledged, rather than fading into the background to let the story take center stage. There's nothing wrong with this approach. I just personally didn't care for it and found it at odds with the tone of the plot.

Kerri and Andy were the reason I stuck with Meddling Kids. They were three-dimensional characters that reminded me of characters from the Scooby gang without feeling like cheap reproductions of them. Andy in particular won me over from the beginning. She's the fighter of the group who's also perfectly willing to be honest about when she's afraid.

If you really love Scooby Doo and like books that feel unlike anything else you've read, Meddling Kids may be the book for you.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Misogyny, Racism, and Transphobia