A review by sagicarrius
Dark Things I Adore by Katie Lattari

2.0

This may have been the first book I’ve read (in my recent memory at least) that isn’t a who-done-it but a why-done-it and I’m not sure I’ve enjoyed this experience. For one, I think because I knew what was going to happen (only one “twist” caught me off guard), just not why, it made the pace of the book feel very slow. I felt so tempted to just skip to the end just to be sure my guesses were correct. Secondly, I didn’t particularly like any of the characters, which I’m assuming you aren’t really meant to but it made it hard for me to feel invested in the book because honestly, I didn’t care about anyone. Lastly, while what Max (and Marcus) did was atrocious and vile, I feel like Juniper could have been the worst out of all of them. SHE KNEW!!!! She KNEW what happened, she even saw the slow descent of Coral and DID nothing. And not only did she keep this secret she continued to stay friends with Max?! To give him a fucking job?!! And even at the end, she still thinks of him in her head as “my dearest friend”…. WHAT. THE. FUCK. It was disgusting and honestly I can’t believe that Audra hadn’t targeted her too, I was kind of rooting for her demise as well.