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Model Home by Rivers Solomon

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gahleeraereads's review against another edition

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dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Here I am on the other side of reading this book, and no, I am not okay. Matter of fact, I want to fight somebody, anybody really.

Solomon's writing and style embodied Ezri so much so that it felt disjointed at times as I was reading it. I found myself having to backtrack to understand the subtle shifts in Ezri's mind. It made since why... eventually, but it took so long to get to the climax of the story. I guess that built suspense, but I also got frustrated because it started to feel like revealing the truth of the haunted house was being drawn out.

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maddogstone20's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I was hoping for more of the horror surrounding the house, but overall was still a good book. Just ended up being a lot different than I originally thought it was.

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nateysmama's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad

Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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kevinjwangler's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

3.5-4 stars until the ending elevated it to a 4.5. This could be a book the sticks with me king after I've physically moved on.

Comparing it to the movie "Mysterious Skin" is, I think, an apt comparison.

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jkeybeane's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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book_newt's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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amy_cutlip's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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cheesy_reads's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I feel like this is hovering between 3.75-4⭐️?

I’m trying to not rate this against what I was expecting but it’s hard! I was hoping for a spookier story and what I got was still really interesting, it was just different from my expectations!

The writing is so lyrical and beautiful and I really enjoyed just the whole vibe of how it read. The story is heartbreaking and honestly I was shocked by the end and devastated to learn what entity was haunting this family.

A really harrowing story that confronts racism, homophobia, and transphobia and how ugly the world can really be.

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l_h's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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youshouldreadthisif's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

🏠 Am I glad I read it? My first Rivers Solomon read delivers a wallop that I gladly accepted.

That this is a book about contemporary racism in the American South is obvious. But as a reader who enjoys thematic explorations of family dynamics, I cannot help but point out that as much as this is a book about the explicit racism experienced by Ezri’s family in this rich, white Dallas suburb, it is equally about the intergenerational effects of such trauma.

“But it lived in them still, that past, the way these things do.”

Ezri’s parents sought to escape the conditions of their own childhoods and make something better for their own children, but it’s not so easy to separate yourself from those kinds of things and the way they shape your psychology and your actions. Mother (God) did so much harm to her children by insisting they stay in that gated community, that house that was the manifestation of her ego and her fantasies of wealth and privilege, that terrified her children so much. Mother (God) couldn’t let go of something false at the expense of her (children’s) life, her (children’s) freedom. History is a psychological cage.

It was this aspect of MODEL HOME’s exploration of racism that I found most interesting.

🏠 Rating: 🖤 (loved)

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