Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Fractured by Karin Slaughter

8 reviews

peachani's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Classism, Excrement, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Cursing, Incest, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual content

popsmcc17's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Child abuse

hambo221's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Pregnancy

cammaleahh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Murder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Child abuse

missmichalalynn's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

surprise the teacher had a little girl fetish and convinced the copy guy to help him. interested to see how will handles having a partner for the long term

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Gun violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Blood, and Torture

Minor: Sexual violence, Rape, and Confinement

autumnwhite's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Gaslighting, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Cursing, Murder, Ableism, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic friendship

susysstories's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

No very big surprises imo. I hadn’t thought of Warren as an accomplice, but wasn’t very surprised either, it just didn’t do much for me. Though I understand Evan having power over Warren, I don’t get the setup of this crime. It also doesn’t fit Evan’s MO. He’s a molester, not a kidnapper. How and why Kayla was involved didn’t become clear either.
Someone (Victor) or a scene made intentionally creepy to set us on the wrong foot is completely fine with me, I actually like that, WHEN followed by a twist/surprise. Which wasn’t the case in this book. I’m always looking for the character mentioned in the beginning and then never again so we’d forget about them, who ends up being the culprit. 
So yeah, I found the book a page turner but the end didn’t satisfy me.. Because it was a real page turner, I’m still giving it 3.5 stars but definitely not as enjoyable as Triptych, though as I said in that review, I didn’t find that ending very surprising either, all the surprises were in the first half of the book…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Body horror, Confinement, Sexual violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Suicidal thoughts

jackbifrost's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Stalking, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Death, Confinement, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Bullying, Infidelity, and Sexism

Minor: Abortion and Transphobia