Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Don't Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders

5 reviews

mnesaw's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Animal death

Minor: Suicide

robin_reads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

Unreliable narrator who is incredibly stupid at the same time. Contradictory thoughts and behavior. Idek. I only finished reading because I wanted to know if my predictions were right. They were. Still not worth it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Gaslighting, Blood, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Child death, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

WHEW this book INFURIATED me. There's nothing that gets my goat more a woman not being believed. But I liked it very much, and I really wanted to get to the end. Def stayed up too late listening to it. Ooh it takes quite a storyteller to make me want to have a Spongebob-level freakout. Excited to read this author again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Child death, Alcohol, and Confinement

Minor: Blood, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Stalking, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

on_your_raedar's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad 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

2.0

It’s a fine book. I think booktok overhyped it and I had expectation this book couldn’t meet. 

The gaslighting as a theme/ way to create an unreliable narrator made all the character insufferable.

Everything felt over written and listening to Jo was 🫠. The dog was the only good character and homie wasn’t even mentioned much.

I will say that Chloe was convincing, the way she had an answer for everything but there were enough signs to know she was the evil. Don’t get me wrong, the husband is TRASH, absolutely trash, but he never came across as a psycho. He enabled his daughter’s condition so he shouldn’t have been surprised that he met his maker in the end. Wish Jo had went to visit her mother in law sooner, that could have cleared a lot of things up for her really quickly

Anyways at least it’s done now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

Minor: Animal death