u/saalamander

The characters in Girl Next Door were implausibly passive. Also it was pretty mild.

I know it's a book but the premise of a group of kids 1) not caring about a girl being tortured to death or telling anyone about it and 2) not accidentally letting it slip that there is a girl getting tortured to death and 3) a girl's sister passively watching her get tortured to death and 4) nobody outside the main torture group noticing what was happening... just kinda rendered the book boring to me. I just couldn't get into it.

It was also not nearly as extreme as what I was expecting. I was expecting a lot more graphic scenes but the "worst" thing that the girl experienced was described by the narrator like this: "I can't even tell you about it, it's too awful". Come on.

I'm not very familiar with the genre so I'm not sure if these are common sentiments or not. I've also read Hogg and I think that might have ruined my expectations for what is and isn't "Extreme."

What do you guys think? And please recommend me some books that you think I might like based on my critiques. Looking for something significantly more extreme.

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u/saalamander — 16 hours ago
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iOS live activity only showing "add exercise"

And when I click to open it, it opens up to the exercise section screen to add an exercise

Getting pretty annoying. Anyone know how to fix? I've turned live activities on and off and uninstalled and reinstalled the app

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u/saalamander — 6 days ago