A review by wheresminnie
Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book kept me interested and was a pretty quick finish. I don't think it lived up to the BookTok hype - but what book does? I enjoyed how much of Geo's story was told in a relatively quick way - from teenage years, to
her incarceration
, to present day. About 3/4 of the way through, I had an epiphany that
Kai was the killer and had been trying to get Geo's attention due to his years-long unrequited love
. I was a bit disappointed that I was wrong. It would have been a stretch, but
no more of a stretch than a surprise son doing copycat crimes of his serial killer father to get his mother's attention and then showing up to rape her
.
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