I personally love novels that take shifting perspectives - in terms of time or people or even style. Sadie slides into this group perfectly, featuring not merely two narrators in Sadie and West, but also both real-time and hindsight and narrative and podcast styles.

I don't listen to podcasts (I don't think I've ever listened to one, in all honesty) so I can't speak to the authenticity of the podcast portions, but I do read a lot of novels. Normally, in YA novels like Sadie, the author throws in a main character they want to feel "human" - they might give her a stutter like eponymous character Sadie has. This often feels like a gimmick. Nothing about Sadie (either the character or the book as a whole) feels like a gimmick. She's wild and unpredictable and angry but she's also tired and hurt and more than a little bit lonely. She latches on to the snatches of kindness she gets during her journey for vengeance.

I won't spoil the ending, but it almost made me angry. It left me feeling... Unfulfilled. But in a way that evokes something desperate. A need to find out what's next but also an understanding that you can't always know.

It's not often I give a five star rating, but I think Sadie (and author Courtney Summers) deserves it - and I'll quite likely search out more of her books.

Overall: if you're looking for a fast-paced (if a bit gritty) read, a main character who carves a space slightly too small for herself in your chest with her stolen switchblade, and a writing style that leaves no room for anything resembling boredom Sadie should absolutely be on your TBR.