A List of Cages Book Reviews

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Darker than I expected for YA. I first heard about A List of Cages in 2019 in a book recommendation video on YouTube, and I’m just now getting around to reading it. I will say I spent about 15% of the time reading it confused. I would sometimes have to go back and reread some pages to figure out who said what (however I’m not faulting the author for that because that could just be my attention span) I thought that they were like 16-19 in age until the chapter where they got to Emeralds birthday and they made a comment about him being 14. (Once again that could be blamed on me just not paying enough attention, but I did assume that they were a little closer in age). There were also a few parts that made me sad for Julian, (not sad enough to cry, but more of a aww I wanna hug him way) such as the part about when the clothes got brought up or Adam having to pay for a drink because he spent his allowance on the butterfly for Emerald. Then the whole shaving his legs thing? What was that all about? There’s only a few characters in this book that I don’t like And Russell because of obvious reasons. And most of the teachers Julian has but I don’t really count them. I didn’t like Charlie at first but he came around. There is also just a lot of seemingly random things that happen in this book that doesn’t make too much sense. To me at least. For example the part where emerald told Adam she liked him and there was no Brett. (I genuinely don’t understand the point of her doing that) The part where Julian checks on his teacher and it’s her dead sons birthday. (I just felt that chapter was a little out of place. Not completely unnecessary because Julian talks about his parents, but nonetheless). Like I understand the chapters are just letting us see bits and pieces of what both boys go through at a time (I assume) and it’s all connected in a way but it doesn’t feel like it, until you see where it connects, like most of it I assumed it was just random, oddly placed, weird stuff happening until I got to the part where it connects. I don’t hate it but the setup is just not my favorite, however it’s also the first book I’ve read that’s like that I think. The part where Russell locked that poor kid in his trunk made me quite literally feel sick to my stomach. I was very surprised to find out that he was never at work and using Julian’s money. It made my jaw hit the floor. I was rooting for Adam when he went to Russell’s house like men do when they watch football. And the flash drive? That made me feel so many emotions at once that I had to put my phone down for a moment. The last 30 pages, everything happened so fast it just about gave me whiplash. All of this being said, I do overall like the book.

Check trigger warnings before reading!!!!. A trigger warning would have been great!!! Thought this would be a good simple hurt comfort trope with a good plot. If you have had any past family trauma or anything similar please check the triggers online omg. Was quite a shock and definitely more angsty than expected. Obviously this isn’t the authors fault but it could have been better advertised. I don’t want to finish it now but I hope it ended happily.

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