What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
208
pages
Longest Book
518
pages
Average book length in
2023
390
pages
Most Shelved
6,324,045
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
44,548
people
also shelved
JLC’s
average rating for
2023
3.3
3.3
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.39
average
JLC’s first review of the year
liked it
I was excited to read this, but pretty let down by the end. The novel opens up some very interesting questions and conflicts, but then glosses over them all. Merry is wonderfully drawn, very complex and engaging and age-perfect in her 8yo characterization; Marjorie is intriguing but ultimately not fleshed out enough. The parents and adult characters are caricatures. If Tremblay dug deeper into the concepts he opens this would be a fascinating rea
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JLC’s last review of the year
it was ok
What was the point of this book? Seriously, what point is the author trying to make here? That life sucks??? No duh. All I read about were horrible people doing horrible things - even the children are a$$holes - and all so insular I couldn't find any narrative connections. To be honest, I started skimming after Rosie's chapter, so maybe I missed the literary glue that made sense of all this a$$holery??? But by then I couldn't spend another moment
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