Lori

This book reinforces how good the author is at making characters come to life with internal monologues, dialogue, and pop culture. Go Jade Go! If there’s a team, I want to be on hers.

I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first book but the farther I got in the series the fonder I look back on the first book. This span of history and experience makes the growth of the community and main character more impactful. It's worth reading each book just because of this.

Its hard to say what makes this book so good. It could be the connection you build to the characters or maybe because it fills all cravings for slasher culture that you can have. Each book gets progressively better, and this last book is just that last touch of perfection rounding out the story.

It’s hard to find a good mystery series and I wanted to like this more then I did. There are good parts to the book but there is too much disappointment for me to really like it.

The author doesn’t seem to know how collector books work. Library books are used so much that the books will be well worn and have tag/stickers on them for cataloguing. This alone makes the driving force for the murder useless. It’s really not hard to guess who the murder was which makes all the main characters guessing near the end annoying.

The characters aren’t bad but the main character is a terrible friend. She immediately suspects her friend and her friend’s new boyfriend. She also doesn’t seem to care what is going on with anyone but her self. The love interest did something horrible to the MC in high school but the MC still can’t help but be week around them. Meeting again the love interest doesn’t even remember the MC and there is no apology.

I don’t think I can continue with this series. It had good parts and most of the characters are likable. Loved the cat. Its not a bad book but just not for me.

This was a fun book to read. I found it light and easy to get through although the ending felt too fast. There are a lot of small parts that I enjoyed that I kept thinking about after. This is more British humor and can be dry at times.

The books pacing and additional details are the only things that slightly bothered me. For pacing the beginning is slow but once you get to the last third of the book there just wasn’t enough time to enjoy the story. For the additional details there are good additions to the main characters back stories or side stories but it can be too much. There are characters we are introduced to that have no weight on the story and aren’t funny/witty additives.

I liked the book and decided to watch the show afterwards. The first season was great although there was of course some changes to the story. I would recommend this book to others.

I had read a short story by this author and liked their writing enough that I had wanted to pick up another of their books. This was not a bad place to start.

The story itself is captivating and gets though the suffocating helplessness that many feel when the authorities just don’t care. The main characters are interesting, and I liked the feeling of community though out the book although I would have liked to spend more time with some of them.

I feel like the book missed out on really pulling depth out of the characters. We get a lot of the main character telling us she likes to run, but it backs out of any further developments. This cuts some of the emotional connection the readers could have had to the characters. This could have been an excellent book if we got to know more about the main characters and their lives/motivations. The book does at times add too much detail. We get a lot of descriptions about what people are physically doing that aren’t needed.

Despite what the book missed the story is good and the main character was a driving force that kept me engaged. When I have time, I would like to read another book by this author.

I hated this book.

The story is mostly told as a recapping of events by unreliable narrators. This removed all emotional connections with the main characters. Being told what these characters have done does not provide enough insight to be able to empathize with them. That and the fact that they all are callous people who make intentionally stupid decisions to hurt others.

This was so hard to get though. Love was not a great enough power to make anything these characters did forgivable.

This would be a good book for kids as it’s simple to read and the morals of the story are brought up or thought about by the main character after each event. For an adult, the writing is not that great but for a kid or young adult its themes are shown and then told for reinforcement.

I don’t have much to say, it’s a good and simple story that’s effective at getting across its ideas.

I had seen the film before reading this book so I went in with some high expectations and ended up finding the book incredibly boring.

This book just misses the mark on its horror elements. The film does better at creating an atmosphere of unease which could be because the book spends a lot of its time on the mundane parts of moving into and decorating an apartment then the film. We spend a lot of time with Rosemary but not with her pregnancy. Even the cult is mainly background noise.

It has all the elements to make a suspenseful supernatural cultish horror novel and while there are some good scenes it doesn’t follow through with them. Most of the book is light in its suspense and even in the last part of the book when tension is ramped up it didn’t have the impact it should have. That is the biggest detractor of this book it doesn’t hit hard on horror.

This is not a bad book and overall it is a good story it just doesn’t have that weight truly to horrify you.

This book reinforces how good the author is at making characters come to life with internal monologues, dialogue, and pop culture. Go Jade Go! If there’s a team, I want to be on hers.

I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first book but the farther I got in the series the fonder I look back on the first book. This span of history and experience makes the growth of the community and main character more impactful. It's worth reading each book just because of this.

Its hard to say what makes this book so good. It could be the connection you build to the characters or maybe because it fills all cravings for slasher culture that you can have. Each book gets progressively better, and this last book is just that last touch of perfection rounding out the story.

This book started of so well. Independent, resourceful, and confident businesswomen are great to see in romance books. What I don’t care to see is love triangles. Simply because it’s hard to get right and this book does not get it right.

It's noticeably clear which person the main character should pick. How many times should you get a gut feeling that the person is off or lying for you to trust it? This stupidity on the MC's behalf puts us through two terrible night scenes with the wrong guy. Her best friend was right never giving bad nights a second chance. It was nice in a way to see this happen as it reinforces standing up for yourself and getting what you need. Something you don’t always see in romance books.

The wrong guy is too clearly the wrong person for our main character and her continuous doubting of her instincts is a little annoying. The right guy is so clearly right that I felt a little bad for him being strung along while she took her sweet time to realize the wrong guy is just awful. She gets so much advice on how to choose the right person and even says the right guy fits most of the advice but still wants to wait on the wrong guy. It’s awful that she only picks between them after having another bad night with the wrong guy. This led to bumbling the relationship with the right guy during and after the big confrontation.

What the book did right was the making the main character a strong businesswoman, setting up good familial bonds, and real friendship ribbing. The writing of the book is good, but the romance story is not.

Oh, that child is so evil! I will say this book is a little slow and is mostly internal dialog which can be hard to get though. Although I like the slow escalation of events and reveals that story presents.

Throughout the book, I did question why the mother wouldn’t use her phone to record the daughter or even have more security cameras in the house. All this aside I enjoyed being creeped out by a child because my goodness is she just evil. The back and forth of narration from chapter to chapter is well done. The daughter’s point of view is gradually expanded to encompass her true thoughts and motivations while the mother's view develops her past trauma and disconnection to the thing that she must call daughter.

I thought this would be a little more messed up than it was. Most of the horror comes from the thoughts of the characters and then actions until you get closer to the end. It is had to get through the beginning as it's just a bit too slow and a bit frustrating. With the mother not communicating more with the father and the father not listening or just ignoring all issues you get tired of this quickly.

I did like the story and the ending was good but since this was a modern story it’s hard not to ask why the mother or even the schools didn’t get any video evidence of this child’s behaviour. I found out there is another book after this, and I am looking forward to reading it.