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A review by blearyeyed
Someone Had To Do It by Amber Brown, Danielle Brown
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
4.0
Ok.. first time around, I really couldn’t get into this book. The opening scene was just really boring and I couldn’t quite tell where it was going. But my GOD… when I finally got into it?!? This book consumed me, and was consumed (in a day). Quite literally gave me horrible anxiety and made me cry like 5 times thinking about all of the real people who are wrongfully incarcerated and never brought to justice.
Now.. Brandi is REALLY fucking stupid. She knows so much, but doesn’t know that you never speak to the cops without a lawyer? Thinks taking $10k from a soon to be murderer is a better plan than asking her wealthy boyfriend for money? Stupid, stupid, stupid. And I can only justify so much of it.
Taylor is… a lot. To be honest, I’m more scared of her friends, specifically Mei. The storyline regarding her mom was really interesting!
I think that the authors, in their quest to involve race in the storyline, drove their point(s) home in a bit of an odd way. Like, I get it, but there’s a way to put this in the subtext
Now.. Brandi is REALLY fucking stupid. She knows so much, but doesn’t know that you never speak to the cops without a lawyer? Thinks taking $10k from a soon to be murderer is a better plan than asking her wealthy boyfriend for money? Stupid, stupid, stupid. And I can only justify so much of it.
Taylor is… a lot. To be honest, I’m more scared of her friends, specifically Mei. The storyline regarding her mom was really interesting!
I think that the authors, in their quest to involve race in the storyline, drove their point(s) home in a bit of an odd way. Like, I get it, but there’s a way to put this in the subtext
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, and Suicide attempt