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michaelrcalkins's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Stalking
Moderate: Cursing and Drug use
Minor: Alcohol
herelieshenry's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Gore, Incest, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Car accident
Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Rape, and Medical content
dragonbloom's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, and Murder
Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Misogyny, and Medical trauma
Medical trauma, medical content, ableism: It is not intended to be be that way, but this book could certainly be very upsetting to a survivor of medical trauma or abuse. There are graphic asylum scenes, and Doctor Loomis is described as drugging patients he “believes cannot recover” to prevent them from pleading their case for release to a judge. Some comments exchanged by medical professionals about their patients are highly ableist. Animal death, cruelty: The antagonist kills a dog, in detail. It is self defence, sort of, as he shouldn’t have been in the garden in the first place. Stalking: The antagonist stalks his victims for a few hours before killing them. Sexual content: There are a few scenes of undressing, and one graphic sex scene. Misogyny: Many of the descriptions of women have aged poorly, as there is far too much talk of their breasts unnecessarily. Confinement: The antagonist is locked in a prison/mental ward for 15 years, thoughladiicatherine's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
The events were there but extended upon in parts and some of the events were out of sequence.
Hearing the character’s thoughts was very strange and, in a way, pulled me away from things.
I also don’t know if I got the full story given it was a Kindle edition. It seemed to cut off very abruptly at the end. However, getting your hands on a physical copy that is reasonably priced is difficult so I might never know if there was supposed to be more at the end!
It just could have been better overall.
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Stalking