Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

25 reviews

redheadsuperpowers's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I stick by my description of this series as Twilight for adults, but it's so well written, and I enjoyed this close to the series so much. It tied up all the major plot points, and the minor ones left open are likely to close with the next series set in this universe. (The first of those books is out!) The relationship between the main characters, Diana and Matthew, settles some, easing how annoyed I was with male lead in the second book. The family moments were many, and one scene made me cry. I was disappointed with one major plot point though. It's a spoiler, so I won't share it, but I was like 'wait, what? Why? Who?' and the book did not answer that point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Murder, Stalking, Torture, Body horror, and Forced institutionalization

georgiaalexturnbull's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Pregnancy

balancethebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Rape, Stalking, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

beccaand's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, Rape, and Death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Child death, Pregnancy, and Kidnapping

Minor: Body horror and Sexual content

yggie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Murder

laura_mcloughlin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

My 2nd time reading this one. I did enjoy it more this time and it is a pretty solid finish to the trilogy.

I would love to see Gallowglass get his own book though

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Rape, Stalking, Sexual violence, Murder, Torture, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Minor: Body horror

onestephatatime's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• 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? It's complicated

3.0

I read this concurrently with season 3 (it aired once a week where I’m from) and I felt burnt out and over the story by the end of it. Now that some time has passed, I think I can give my opinion on it.

I found that too much and not enough happened in this book. Despite it being 700+ pages, the ending still felt rushed and still, there were a lot of loose ends still untied.

The things I did like were that Matthew was significantly less of a prick (but that's a low bar to begin with lol), and fluffy domestic feels with Diana and the fam. I also liked that

Matthew’s recovery process took time, and it showed the effects it had not only on him, but the people around him as well - the one thing I wished the show had adapted, rather than his one and done recovery (because I know he would have ATE that scene)

. My other favourite thing about this book was that I can pretend that Baldwin was never recasted (iykyk).

And my favourite line of the entire book: “Answer your FUCKING email!”

TLDR; entertaining, fun. What I would have expected for a book that was Twilight for Adults™️. The first two books were *chefs kiss* the finale just felt rushed like the author was writing like she was running out of time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Torture

Moderate: Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Murder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

beaudoindani17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Stalking, Sexual violence, Rape, and Pregnancy

maddox22's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Torture, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship