Reviews with content warning for Trafficking - El sótano

I finished this book in a couple hours, I do not feel like it was “slow paced” as it’s categorized. I hated reading from Lewis’s perspective, he’s super boring- but I also get why his perspective was important to the story. It was fine, I guess?
I wish that for such a *heavy* plot it had a little more character development & soul. It felt more like reading someone else’s story about a horrible thing than actually feeling it from inside the cellar- from the girl’s perspectives. Like there was so much blood, gore, assault, & shock value on top that it didn’t bother diving any deeper. I wanna know more about the girls, we get summer’s perspective of living with them for nearly a full year & still know almost nothing about them.

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

I wasn't a big fan of this one.. it wasn't very unique and the plot was very similar to other books in this genre. Nothing really stood out - but don't get me wrong. The storyline is sick and disturbing and completely repulsive, especially since things like this happen. It isn't rare that these situations occur and these monsters exist.

I just felt like the writing in this was poorly executed and I didn't really feel anything. It was disturbing but the only detailed parts were the graphic scenes. It was very repetitive and had way too many grammatical errors and misspelled words..
I get the novel was written on Wattpad, but some editing definitely needed to be done.

There were also some parts that were left unexplained and kind of had a huge build up only not to be brought up again. It needed more details, more development, more umph... it was lacking a lot. It had a lot of potential and the story was good enough to keep me reading, it just needed more to get a higher rating from me.

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