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A review by tea4tegs
Pretty Girls Make Graves by Steffanie Holmes
3.0
It’s not bad but it’s also not amazing.
The pros: the MC is likable and fallible but lovably so, it’s accessible but not childish, and there’s enough plot to support a lofty romantic aspect
The cons: it feels like the author read The Secret History and studied abroad one semester in college and said “hmm what if I just..”, there’s a bunch of callbacks to another series by the author (apparently this is a spinoff) and it feels incredibly awkward without context, it often feels predictable, and lastly I personally cannot stand when people quote other people as a substitute for their own intellect and these characters literally speak in quotations so the idea that they are this intelligent elite feels laughable as if they’ve ever had an original though in their fictional lives
The pros: the MC is likable and fallible but lovably so, it’s accessible but not childish, and there’s enough plot to support a lofty romantic aspect
The cons: it feels like the author read The Secret History and studied abroad one semester in college and said “hmm what if I just..”, there’s a bunch of callbacks to another series by the author (apparently this is a spinoff) and it feels incredibly awkward without context, it often feels predictable, and lastly I personally cannot stand when people quote other people as a substitute for their own intellect and these characters literally speak in quotations so the idea that they are this intelligent elite feels laughable as if they’ve ever had an original though in their fictional lives