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Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay

9 reviews

jhansell's review

dark mysterious tense slow-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcoholism, and Child death

duke_elligos's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Child death

uhhlexiconic's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

Disappearance at Devil's Rock is a sometimes hard to read look at a family in mourning and the things they do to keep hope in dark times. What is does with atmosphere makes up for the lack of momentum in the proceedings; despite the mystery aspect, many of the clues are 'given'. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

Moderate: Stalking and Child death

jess2obsess's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Stalking

Moderate: Child abuse, Murder, Death of parent, Mental illness, Violence, Death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use

killmoore_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

My goodness. This was painfully boring.. then it wasn't! Then it ended.

I struggled through the first 2/3 of this, and almost put it down a handful of times. It's repetitive, the characters are shallow, and the dialog feels forced. The 70 or so pages of escalation are well done, and I loved the weaved interrogation format, but it fell so flat at the end that I shut the book -angry-, repeating the last line out loud, to myself. 

This is the first Tremblay novel I've read, and while I still plan on reading Head Full of Ghosts, I'm nowhere near as excited as I was before reading this. A previous review hit the nail on the head - R.L. Stein trying way too hard to be Dickens. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Mental illness, Violence, Cursing, Murder, Stalking, Alcohol, Child death, Death, and Car accident

louisegraveyard's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Violence, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Torture, Physical abuse, Murder, Addiction, Alcohol, Medical content, Grief, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Car accident

patroklos's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Torture, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Stalking

Minor: Sexual assault

orangesquidbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I did enjoy this book, I don’t really find Tremblay’s work scary but it is suspenseful. I don’t love the

ambiguity of the supernatural elements, I think it would be better if it were more cut and dry like Alex North’s work. Like, leading you on to think there’s supernatural elements, but everything has a rational explanation.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Violence

child abduction

stayshomeandreads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence