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itsheyfay's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Gun violence, Car accident, and Classism
Minor: Homophobia, Abandonment, and War
kb_sherman's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Cursing, Drug use, and Alcohol
paronomaniac's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Moderate: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Murder
Minor: Gun violence
bookishmillennial's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
This takes place at a summer camp which Stevie is recruited by the owner to join so that she and her friends (Janelle, Nate, David) can attempt to solve the 1978 murders of four camp counselors in the woods. They’re known as the “Box in the Woods” murders and had remained unsolved. I was expecting another few books to fully crack the case but Johnson provided a completely standalone mystery, which was equally shocking and impressive!
I can’t wait to continue on and read the next book. These books are cozy, funny, and sometimes extremely tense and stressful mysteries, and I love the anxiety representation in them too.
I highly recommend them, and it’d be cool if they adapted it into a movie series!
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Murder
Minor: Gun violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
laurenevlyn's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Homophobia, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and War
rissaandherbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcohol
bri_fabiano's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
ciarramist's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Child death, Homophobia, Antisemitism, and War
There are very brief mentions of a minor character’s father being a former Nazi, nothing related to this or the Holocaust is discussed in detail, but it is briefly mentioned.madisone's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Vomit
Minor: War