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Samantha C. Brooks

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amazing story, amazing performance

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-08-21

I love Angie Thomas's stories, and this is no exception. Maybe her best yet. It broke my heart when a character was introduced from THUG, because I knew some of their fates. Every chapter had me living in this world for the first time again. Their world is authentic, and real.

As for the performance, if I could have given 20 stars I would have. I would listen to this narrator read absolutely anything and be grateful. He is so incredibly talented, I had a hard time remembering that this WASN'T his personal memoir. He did a glorious job.

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Amazing voice acting - overrated story.

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-26-20

I struggled to get through this story. It's a slow build up, interspersed with some good, tense scenes. I wasn't looking for a boldly scary, jumps are kind of story - I wanted something slow, creepy-feeling building, unsettling, etc. This sort of scratched that itch. Sometimes it was good, but other times...I don't know it seemed like a compilation of horror lit tropes stacked on top of the other. It's quite clearly

A) the author's debut novel, reeking of inexperience in the genre and

B) not grounded in reality (which frustrates me, as I don't like books that take place mostly in the characters head, talking to themselves)

I thought it was a solid first novel, and I can see how this author could gain a lot of skill and be a great writer. They would need to check the tropes, and/or make them their own, or make them mean something. There was so little meaning behind the scares other than being scary.

I really wanted the ending to be good, to be an amazing payoff for all these little creepy moments, the unsettling one-liners, etc. Something to tie it all together...and instead I got something far more anticlimactic. I don't think this book is terrible, but it's definitely not worth the hype.

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Entertaining read from start to finish

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-27-18

Part satire, part glamor fiction, a peek into a world rarely seen by Westerners. The culture of Singapore feels real to me in this novel, and it's like I'm back there tasting the popiah and hawker food myself. Loved all the characters, they were vivid and vibrant! I can't wait to read the next one.

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Amazing, Amazing Story

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Reviewed: 10-04-18

I couldn't finish this book fast enough. Amazing performance by the reader, compelling, moving, heartbreaking story of strength. Just amazing.

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