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A review by imbook_ed
The List by Carys Jones
1.0
So clearly this is a 1 star rating for me. Also my very first ever 1 star review and for very good reason. But I do want to start off with the positives because this is going to be a LONG one.
Positives:
I was super excited to read this one! I though the premise sounded incredible and I couldn’t want to watch it unravel. A list is found and the third name is our MC. She wanted to find out who wrote the list, why she’s on the list, and who the other people on the list are. DOESN’T THAT SOUND SO GOOD?!
Ok ok ok so it started out kinda slow and hard to follow I mean we were jumping between first and third person throughout the whole book so I never knew who was talking. There were no headers to specify and I can see how this could be appealing to some but I was always confused so that’s a flop for me.
halfway through this book... right when it was getting good... we were about to enter the plot, the reason this whole book exists! And BAM RUINED!
I am not trying to give spoilers ( so if you are even slightly worried about this skip this next little section.... but keep in mind it’s a CW and it’s VERY IMPORTANT and tbh I don’t deem it as a spoiler hence why I didn’t flag this review as such) but I was so disturbed, upset and unsettled that I started crying (in a bad way!) and because of the graphic details got very light headed and suck to my stomach. There is a scene in which a CHILD WITH AUTISM IS BULLIED AND TORTURED TO DEATH!
I nearly stopped reading however I NEEDED to find out if there was a reason for the child to be autistic. Maybe we circled back and it was a key detail that just HAD to be there. But alas there was nothing other than the fact that the child couldn’t help himself and run away or call for help because of his autism? Was it just to make that character helpless? Couldn’t the child have just been a younger or typical child? No? We had to make him autistic? But why? This is my main issue with this book. There was no reason for it. It also wasn’t to bring awareness to the autistic population either... so what was the point exactly?
Was I supposed to feel bad for our MC? Because if that’s the case she did a really horrible job stating her case. In fact I HATED HER throughout the whole book. There was nothing that made me have any empathy for her.
So all in all I would not recommend this book to anyone. In fact I really hope someone else can take this premise and write an INCREDIBLE book because I feel like it had a lot of potential. Please take this off your tbr and your “want to read” shelf. There is no reason to support this kind of book.
Please don’t take this as cancel culture or to blame the author. I really hope I’m not coming across in that way. I really think this couldn’t been an AMAZING book... but unfortunately I just don’t see it as such. If you have already read this one please feel free to message me because I’m so interested in what others think about it.
Positives:
I was super excited to read this one! I though the premise sounded incredible and I couldn’t want to watch it unravel. A list is found and the third name is our MC. She wanted to find out who wrote the list, why she’s on the list, and who the other people on the list are. DOESN’T THAT SOUND SO GOOD?!
Ok ok ok so it started out kinda slow and hard to follow I mean we were jumping between first and third person throughout the whole book so I never knew who was talking. There were no headers to specify and I can see how this could be appealing to some but I was always confused so that’s a flop for me.
halfway through this book... right when it was getting good... we were about to enter the plot, the reason this whole book exists! And BAM RUINED!
I am not trying to give spoilers ( so if you are even slightly worried about this skip this next little section.... but keep in mind it’s a CW and it’s VERY IMPORTANT and tbh I don’t deem it as a spoiler hence why I didn’t flag this review as such) but I was so disturbed, upset and unsettled that I started crying (in a bad way!) and because of the graphic details got very light headed and suck to my stomach. There is a scene in which a CHILD WITH AUTISM IS BULLIED AND TORTURED TO DEATH!
I nearly stopped reading however I NEEDED to find out if there was a reason for the child to be autistic. Maybe we circled back and it was a key detail that just HAD to be there. But alas there was nothing other than the fact that the child couldn’t help himself and run away or call for help because of his autism? Was it just to make that character helpless? Couldn’t the child have just been a younger or typical child? No? We had to make him autistic? But why? This is my main issue with this book. There was no reason for it. It also wasn’t to bring awareness to the autistic population either... so what was the point exactly?
Was I supposed to feel bad for our MC? Because if that’s the case she did a really horrible job stating her case. In fact I HATED HER throughout the whole book. There was nothing that made me have any empathy for her.
So all in all I would not recommend this book to anyone. In fact I really hope someone else can take this premise and write an INCREDIBLE book because I feel like it had a lot of potential. Please take this off your tbr and your “want to read” shelf. There is no reason to support this kind of book.
Please don’t take this as cancel culture or to blame the author. I really hope I’m not coming across in that way. I really think this couldn’t been an AMAZING book... but unfortunately I just don’t see it as such. If you have already read this one please feel free to message me because I’m so interested in what others think about it.