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A review by al_exposition
Framed by S.L. McInnis
3.0
real review: 3.75 rounded down to a 3
won't lie, the original pacing was very slow for me at the beginning, and the multiple perspectives AND multiple time frames was confusing to follow. but once it became more linear and the book progressed, it became easier to figure out the time jumps.
at first, i was thinking to myself that the twists at the end were stupid, but tracking them, almost all of them have at least one line of foreshadowing throughout the book, which eats down.
like the fact that it was beth all along was something i already guessed, mainly because it felt too clean for it to be jason. but the twist being that beth had swapped her back story with cassie's and that cassie wasn't actually dead and that the family photo was actually cassie's parents?? it kinda tracksssssss.
- we thought beth didn't want cassie to see the photo because cassie loved beth's parents. irl it was because it was cass' parents.
- rick literally told us that beth knew everything about cassie and that they were close af. and he was right!! they were in cahoots bro
minus so many stars for the dissociative disorder plot line... why can't girls just be crazy to BE crazy? the ptsd kinda? makes sense? but like,,, if she was in the system and was abused growing up, it makes sense for her to be crazy for the hell of it. the diagnosis imo just wasn't necessary.
i'm glad the ending was a sort of cliff hanger and that i am just left to imagine what happens next with the group. the world will never know
won't lie, the original pacing was very slow for me at the beginning, and the multiple perspectives AND multiple time frames was confusing to follow. but once it became more linear and the book progressed, it became easier to figure out the time jumps.
at first, i was thinking to myself that the twists at the end were stupid, but tracking them, almost all of them have at least one line of foreshadowing throughout the book, which eats down.
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like the fact that it was beth all along was something i already guessed, mainly because it felt too clean for it to be jason. but the twist being that beth had swapped her back story with cassie's and that cassie wasn't actually dead and that the family photo was actually cassie's parents?? it kinda tracksssssss.
- we thought beth didn't want cassie to see the photo because cassie loved beth's parents. irl it was because it was cass' parents.
- rick literally told us that beth knew everything about cassie and that they were close af. and he was right!! they were in cahoots bro
minus so many stars for the dissociative disorder plot line... why can't girls just be crazy to BE crazy? the ptsd kinda? makes sense? but like,,, if she was in the system and was abused growing up, it makes sense for her to be crazy for the hell of it. the diagnosis imo just wasn't necessary.
i'm glad the ending was a sort of cliff hanger and that i am just left to imagine what happens next with the group.