Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

40 reviews

overmonroeville's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Murder, and Alcohol

shannonleestrouse's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

punkrockingnerd's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

There are def some sections crossed out because of trigger stuff, but DAGNABBIT, Ms. Flynn is SUCH a good writer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Incest, Trafficking, Stalking, Car accident, and Abandonment

readingwithjass's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy

brittanygoodrich's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

kat_rowlen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

This book is short to begin with but could have been at least 150 pages shorter. Nothing happened for the first 95% of the book (I track my pages so that’s accurate) the ending was twisty and surprising, but wasn’t really worth enduring the first half of the book. I was comparing this book to Sharp Objects and it doesn’t hold a candle to it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Fire/Fire injury

leyendoentremontanias's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

livlovread's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

marybsimp's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

maddieads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

An incredibly well-written book by Gillian Flynn. Although all of her books are dark I think this one is the darkest. I had DNF’d it several years ago and just recently picked it back up. I remembered why almost right away. It’s a book that makes you viciously uncomfortable at almost every turn. This is not a book with a happy ending but it does have a fitting one. There are definitely major trigger warnings to go with this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail