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chickelope's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Grief
Moderate: Violence, Suicide, and Gun violence
Minor: Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, and Cursing
spellbindingtomes's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, Murder, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Confinement
Minor: Animal cruelty
lizziaha's review against another edition
1.5
The characters were insufferable, and every move being made by the author was very transparent.
Graphic: Gun violence, Gaslighting, Murder, Toxic relationship, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Fire/Fire injury
capriqueen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Violence, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Child death
Minor: Suicide, Confinement, and Infidelity
pernillelsk's review against another edition
1.0
I listened to the audio book of this. The writing itself was fine, and so was the narration, but unfortunately, none of that helped salvage it.
The story was terribly boring and ridiculous. I didn't like any of the characters. All of them were almost nothing but comical caricatures. They were either unbelievably dumb, naïve, and apologetic idiots, or righteous, gaslighting assholes. The only likeable character was the dog. And perhaps sometimes the baby.
No matter how much I sped it up the pace of the audio of this book, I couldn't get properly through the story. About halfway through, I couldn't take it anymore, so I skipped a few chapters forwards every few minutes in the hopes that I would eventually get to something interesting - but the story was so slow and repetitive that I could hardly even tell that I'd skipped anything until I was close to the end. The ending was unnecessarily ridiculous and twisty, but all in all not very surprising or interesting.
Thrillers are usually my jam, and based on the description, I figured that this book would be right up my alley, but no matter what I did, I just could not get through it in the proper way. It was just too boring, too annoying, and too ridiculous. Just skip this one and go find an actually interesting thriller - there are so many out there much better than this.
Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Death, Gaslighting, and Mental illness
Moderate: Classism
ktreml06's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This truly was a wild ride and I highly recommend you take your blood pressure meds before reading!
Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Child death, Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death
Minor: Grief, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Body shaming, Misogyny, Infidelity, Bullying, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence
_msmarian_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I have no words to really describe the rollercoaster of emotions that I went through while reading this book! It's a proper mind boggler, to say the least.
While the reader may start formulating who the villain is, it's impossible to really know until the very end.
Probably one of the best paychological thrillers I've EVER read!
HIGHLY recommend this fast-paced page turner if you're interested in this genre.
Graphic: Blood, Violence, Pregnancy, Death, Infidelity, Child death, Child abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Murder, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent
33vee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Murder, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Death, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Violence, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
hellokatya's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
as much as the characters annoyed me, and were truly insufferable, the author really knows how to weave a story together and make it addicting.
definitely a strong recommendation for a thrilling binge read.
the story reminded me of the omen or the good son.
in its entirety, it’s very creepy, frustrating, and really puts you on the edge of your seat.
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Mental illness
Moderate: Pregnancy, Child death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, and Fire/Fire injury
mrsmishler's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Child death, and Toxic relationship