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marigoldgem's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-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
4.5
yrioona's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
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? Yes
4.5
Absolutely gorgeous prose telling a gripping, gut-wrenching, genre-transcending story. Works equally well as a horror novel and as a novel about real-life horrors. Something about the way Rivers Solomon writes is just totally engrossing to me. Such a brilliant, fucked up, chilling, moving, story full of complicated and multi-layered characters.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Stalking, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Eating disorder
funkstart's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
tatedixon19's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
arijones91's review against another edition
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
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual assault
chaoscass's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
renbee's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
rocioreads_'s review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
thedailydiva's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
5 stars. Point Blank. Insta-buy Author!
Ummmm, dear Rivers Solomon, please forward a billing address for my next three therapy sessions! Please and thank you!!
I will read ANYTHING Rivers Solomon deigns to write. I will read the scraps from their writing room floor. I will happily puzzle together the ripped offal from their literary mind! I think I have found my literary spirit person!!
Ok. After all that praise, I cannot recommend this book.
It is dark. It made me uncomfortable. It made me cry. It made my stomach churn. It made me ask, ‘Why tf did I read this?’. It made me sit uncomfortably in my non-understanding of gender nonconformity. It made me hurt for any character this broken, and haunted. I have never encountered characters like these and I’m ok for a good long while. They hurt me. I couldn’t handle their trauma.
This book is one of the best and most chilling haunted house stories I’ve read. It’s giving demonic, ‘the call is coming from inside the house’ vibes.
I need to read a comedy now…
Ummmm, dear Rivers Solomon, please forward a billing address for my next three therapy sessions! Please and thank you!!
I will read ANYTHING Rivers Solomon deigns to write. I will read the scraps from their writing room floor. I will happily puzzle together the ripped offal from their literary mind! I think I have found my literary spirit person!!
Ok. After all that praise, I cannot recommend this book.
It is dark. It made me uncomfortable. It made me cry. It made my stomach churn. It made me ask, ‘Why tf did I read this?’. It made me sit uncomfortably in my non-understanding of gender nonconformity. It made me hurt for any character this broken, and haunted. I have never encountered characters like these and I’m ok for a good long while. They hurt me. I couldn’t handle their trauma.
This book is one of the best and most chilling haunted house stories I’ve read. It’s giving demonic, ‘the call is coming from inside the house’ vibes.
I need to read a comedy now…