missy
extremely interesting and intriguing what schulman has done here especially after having read ronan farrows catch and kill earlier this year. the first half was so enthralling i would give it alone 5 stars but i think there was some downtime within the last 100 pages that couldve been cut to keep the narrative flowing better
i really thought ania ahlborn would be a favorite horror author of mine but its looking like i just dont click with her... of the two books i've read of hers now, her writing itself leaves a lot to be desired. i can deal with a certain extent of amateurish writing if the end product is interesting and thrilling, but her books are unsatisfying in a way that makes the bad writing even worse. seed is worse than brother in that aspect. so many unneeded and contrived similes thrown around every other sentence. the word smirk was used so much i wondered if i was reading a wattpad romance novel and not a published horror book. i found the story of seed more intriguing than brother, and it did build atmosphere slowly until I thought we'd stumble into a genuinely fun climax that would make the whole thing worth it but instead what tension there is totally flatlines and i was left checking the page count as i got closer and closer to the final page wondering to myself ..is this really it? this is all thats going to happen? and yeah! it was!
really conflicted on how i feel about this one. i think the writing here is nice but the execution of the plot is messy and does not come together in any coherent way by the end. i didnt feel connected enough to the main character to feel much of anything for her, i thought most of the side characters were obnoxious or one note, and yet despite all of that theres something i liked about this even though i couldnt tell you what it is LOL
this is honestly a two star book if we're talking plot and characters hence why it took so fucking long to finish... i could not give a fuck about the grant county characters besides sara and the crime was convoluted yet predictable... but i'm giving it three stars bc will trent was extra wifely here and also its rare for me to support a het ship but i need sara and will to fuck already
Not every person who drives a car will be in a crash, not every cigarette smoker will die of lung cancer, and not every gun owner will use his gun to maim or kill himself or someone else. But people shoot other people with guns because they have guns, and people commit suicide with guns because they have guns, and the more guns there are to be bought and the more people there are to buy them, the more people will kill themselves and others with guns. This is not a moral or political statement—it is a question of pure mathematics. Hand out boxes of matches to twenty young children at a birthday party, and there is every chance that the house will burn down before the party is over.
im ok with vivid descriptions of vomit, shit (animal and human), piss, and period blood. i'm ok with the words cock and pussy being used 1000 times a page, with cocks being called pussies and pussies being called cocks, with balls being compared to peaches, with mermaid tails being compared to pussies. i'm ok with female characters that are so wholly unlikeable that i'm rooting for them to kill themselves. i'm ok with all of this if the book is good. unfortunately this book fucking sucks. was not expecting to have to sit through clinically written heterosexual sex scene after clinically written heterosexual sex scene after clinically written heterosexual sex scene. i think my balls shrunk three sizes reading this. i wish i were dead
i'm so confused on the purpose of this book, the reaction to this book, and what exactly i am supposed to be getting out of this. i kept waiting for the moment when it would click for the mother, for her to have this epiphany that even though she loved her son she couldn't condone or excuse what he'd done but still....all the way to the end she made excuses for him even going so far as to essentially say what happened to those little girls wasn't comparable to what noah suffered in response to his crimes because “there was no penetration.” i feel like i'm going crazy like people actually like this book? and felt moved by it? it was somehow more frustrating to be in the head of this mother than in the head of her underage pedophile son. i'm going to assume that anyone rating this highly has never dealt with this subject matter in real life, and i'm thankful for that, but as someone who has...i don't feel sympathy for a pedophile, regardless of age. an underage pedophile is still a pedophile, being molested as a child by another child still has the same ramifications of a child being molested by an adult i can promise you that. all of this on top of the fact that this book is just badly written. and the “twist” at the end really cemented my hate for this book tbfh. that final pov before the epilogue emphasises how this is clearly just a bait book, a book meant to shock and gasp and appall and that is it. i have to stop getting recommendations from tiktok