Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Fractured by Karin Slaughter

19 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

ja_mehess's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Kidnapping

hauntedantiqueshop's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Meh, I liked it better than the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Minor: Ableism, Transphobia, and Pregnancy

klangwhoa's review

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pedophilia, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexual assault, Bullying, Transphobia, Suicide, Sexism, and Rape

This book uses some words that are outdated and offensive towards trans people, disabled people, and women's sexuality. It is not a major part of the book but it is jarring to read them in 2024.

lisettemarie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Sexual violence

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

4.0

This second book was the first episode of the TV series, but there were many digressions, and the characters that seemed so perfectly cast in the first book were also quite different in this second one. I can appreciate both for their similarities and variances. It’s like two for one in the entertainment value - like so many what if tropes. I think I’ll stop comparing the two with the third book and simply enjoy the book for what it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Rape, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Addiction, and Bullying

marialucia12's review

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

reread.... Audible Will Trent + Sara Linton xoxo
Affluent Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano, arrives home to find a man standing over the corpse of a teenage girl she thinks is her daughter. She kills him in a blind rage, but learns later that he and the dead girl were friends of her daughter, who has been kidnapped.  
They did a version of this story on the TV series but the book is better!
All of her police procedurals are well done, complex and Dark in subject matter.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping and Violence

juureads's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping and Murder

Minor: Rape

knjelite's review

dark mysterious tense 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

4.25

Not my favorite work from Karin but a good addition to the Will Trent series overall. I enjoyed the book's exploration of learning disabilities and how the foster care system can impact one's childhood and therefore their adult lives. Not really gagged by Will and Angie Polanski's relationship but luckily Karin seems to be just as disinterested in developing them as I am in reading about them!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Rape, Misogyny, Torture, and Stalking

nadia_ndco's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual violence, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Suicide, Rape, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Ableism, and Sexism

Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia