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Sadie by Courtney Summers

5 reviews

agentlywildrebellion's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Violence, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Misogyny, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual violence

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I don't know what I expected from Sadie but it was a much different book than I imagined. Crime thrillers are not really my typical genre, but this one came highly reccommended by a friend. I enjoyed Sadie herself as a character - by far, she was the best part of the book and her narration was great. I was iffy on the dual narrative structure (as half the chapters are transcripts from a podcast about Sadie and her sister, Mattie) - but I think it ultimately made the ending stronger. Wish it ended differently. I don't know. I will be thinking about it for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Addiction, Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Child death, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Blood, Alcoholism, Murder, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Rape, and Physical abuse

Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy, and Cancer

ivybean's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Death, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

lubsyreads's review

dark tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

leahwithplantsinthelibrary's review

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

tw// pedophilia, sexual abuse, grief, murder

"& this story begins, as so many stories do, with a dead girl"

ohh boy. ok. well.

sadie by courtney summers is the story of a girl named sadie. pretty obvious but anyway. sadie lived in cold creek, colorado, with her sister mattie, and their sort of adoptive grandmother? may beth foster. their mother, claire, is pretty much out of the picture. at the very beginning of the book we are told that mattie went missing and was then subsequently murdered. she was 13. through alternating perspectives of sadie, and through a podcast that talks about the story that surrounds her, we get to hear the heartbreaking story of "family, sisters, small town america, the lengths we go to protect the ones we love ... and the high price we pay when we can't"

first off the alternating perspective was absolutely genius. the writing was impeccable. i cant stop thinking about it.

this story is the story of so many little girls. it was soul destroying and it was definitely meant to be. in the past year alone i have been exposed to so many stories like this, which unfortunately, are in high abundance in south africa. why must society be this way ?

this is an important book that all people should read. read it an sob because this is the world we live in.

"because i cant take another dead girl"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse