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kaneebli's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, and Medical content
Minor: Animal death, Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Sexual harassment
raintje's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: Cancer, Homophobia, Racism, Terminal illness, and Car accident
lunablch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
The writing felt a little like a fanfiction because the plot was pretty predictable and the character growth was lacking. Wallace grew but not in any complex way.
I would have loved to see more of Cameron's story because it could have had interesting parallels with Wallace and Hugo. Also half the characters in the book were only there to have a crush on Hugo. We get it.
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Racism
beepmbop's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Child death and Violence
Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, and Terminal illness
phvntomstvrs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Racism, Suicide, and Murder
Moderate: Mental illness and Grief
pjdotcom's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Minor: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, and Sexual harassment
_nutella52's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Body horror, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Car accident
Minor: Racism, Medical content, and Sexual harassment
knunderb's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, and Suicide
Minor: Racism and Sexual content
freckles's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I thought the sexual jokes about Wallace were a bit much and uncomfortable at times, though.
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Murder, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Racism, Rape, and Death of parent
sunsorbit'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? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
- “The Manager” is…. I really expected a cosmic being of world and reality changing power to have a cooler name. At first I thought the whole “Oh yeah we can’t mess up or the Manager will come” bit was funny and a cheeky play on typical ghost/afterlife/etc. tropes, but the fact that the Manager calls himself the Manager just felt too meta and jokey to me and not in line with his described character.
- The whole hook situation was…. Considering how lighthearted and funny the book begins with the starting situation between Mei and Wallace, the moment the hook is brought in, I could not stop thinking about the hooks from Dead by Daylight. The way they were described felt unnerving and seemed painful, and the fact that it wasn’t just a “character doesn’t know the proper terminology for something so keeps referring to it in a funny/clunky alternate way”-situation but that everyone called it a hook, and the line connected to it a cable was so janky and unfitting to the other themes of the book, everytime it came up I thought about what a stupid term that was. It would have been so easy to connect this to the tea house with any other String of Fate-esque symbology, yet, alas. We got a Hook and a Cable.
I disliked and found it absolutely baffling how the Manager had a totally random last minute (or rather second, that’s how quickly it happens) change of heart and just suddenly stopped caring about yet another set of vital rules to his whole thing on top of suddenly being kind for absolutely no reason at all when he had made a point to be uncaring and not understanding before? It just came out of nowhere, and ended up making the time constraint an entirely void and inconsequential plot device that served zero purpose except to speed-run the relationship between Wallace and Hugo when it just didn’t need to be that way. I don’t get it. The stakes were high for absolutely no reason, all of this could’ve been explored in a much more interesting way if the character of the Manager had been written consistently and logically. Instead, he ended up being an annoying outside plot driving device, and not even a very good one.
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Death of parent
Minor: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Murder
The animal death is not graphic in a violent way. There’s just a explicit (even if very kind and emotional) description of assisted pet death by a vet.