bozzi1's reviews
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Loved the variety of writing styles and perspectives in this collection. My favorites, in no particular order, are: Pink, Historic Inventory, The Music Box, and Where the Unwanted Go. 

Really enjoyed this mystery/horror. As I saw mentioned in other reviews, there were issues with the pacing and portions of the ending fell flat in comparison with the lead up, but neither of those were enough to turn me away from the story. 

Cosmic horror isn’t my thing, but this novella was still an enjoyable read and I look forward to seeing what else this author has published. 

This is a tough one to review. We Ate the Dark shows the author’s potential and I’m interested to see what she does next, but I have mixed feelings about this debut. 

The friendship, the love, and the family that Frankie, Sophia, Cass, Poppy, and Marya created was my favorite part of the story. Finder and Keeper were cool characters and there were plenty of elements for an incredible gothic, witchy fantasy/horror story. 

Unfortunately,  there was so much going on things didn’t flow cohesively, which made it difficult to finish. It felt like the author had 5-6 possible directions for the story and instead of choosing 1 and building the plot around it, it was just a free for all. Other worlds, devil worship, resurrected dead, murder plots-all little tidbits thrown in without anything to anchor them. 

Another amazing story from Tiffany D. Jackson. This was more of a gut punch than the other books I’ve read by her, but no less brilliant. 

The timeline did get confusing on the audiobook. I don’t think this would be an issue with the physical book, but the narrator was so fantastic I’m glad I listened. 

Rereading just confirms my love for the series. Finnick is the MVP of this one, naturally. 

I loved the gothic feel of this murder mystery. The swamps of Louisiana are such a great setting and don’t seem to be used enough in literature. The darker side of Ruth’s personality were unexpected but made her so much more inter a character so I loved that choice. I wasn’t a fan of how naive and immature she was most of the time, especially into her 20s. That’s really the only thing that brought my rating down, it made the story feel YA when nothing else had that vibe. 

There were a lot of references to Twilight and I could see that being an issue for some readers, but it worked for me since I am such a fan of that series and witnessed it’s influence on girls who grew up reading it. 

I can’t decide if I like the ending or want to throttle the author for it, but I’m leaning toward it being the right choice. 

I knew nothing about the gulags so it was very interesting to hear the women’s stories. My rating comes because I listened to the audiobook. So many names were unfamiliar to me and I couldn’t look them up easily since I didn’t know how to spell them, the stories ran together, and it was hard to tell who was speaking at times. I think the physical book is the best way to experience this one and I would’ve loved to see the pictures to go along with the stories.