Reviews with content warning for Suicide - Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You

There's a book I read last year. It's called Tender in the Flesh. I read two words"legal cannibalism" and I just HAD to read that book. Long story short, the execution was bad. Legal cannibalism had a great deal of potential, just like "weaponized music." Unsurprisingly, Your Favorite Band Cannot Save you has the same problem: bad execution.
Everything about this novella was perfect except that it was a novella. It should have been a full length novel. More developed characters. Personal individualities. Strong bonds. I felt attached to zero (0) characters solely because we didn't have any time. Action was shoved my way, thrown in my face. I have no idea what was Moore so frantic about that he just had to fill a hundred and twenty pages and call it quits.

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theliteraryhooker's review

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adventurous tense fast-paced

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

3.5

A great book to pick up and read through in a single sitting. I wish we'd had a slightly more likeable and less pretentious narrator to centre the plot, but the actual story is a fun time! I'm a sucker for books that incorporate other forms of media so weird subliminal music as a plot device worked well for me. Really my main issue was the main character's voice, but it bothered me less as the plot went on.

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misssleepless's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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