Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik

43 reviews

ellieintherye's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Extremely disturbing. It was a page turner, but pretty nasty the whole way through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death of parent

hmatteson's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Murder

laycie's review against another edition

3.5

dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Vomit

babydog420's review against another edition

3.5

dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A deeply cynical book about how the world breaks and remakes us, and what we think we deserve as a result. A fun read but one that left me wanting something more. Definitely recommend checking trigger warnings if that's something you do.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Misogyny, Self harm, Blood, Kidnapping, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

golden's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, Sexual harassment

saldre's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy

ghostthereader's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Murder

gochasingrabbits's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder

karamelka_kar19's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is incredibly short and long at the same time. It's a story of abuse, rape and pain. The main character Suzy felt real in her struggle, not made up by someone in their cozy room at home. Beautiful and raw, wow. 

But..at the end I wasn't really connected to the story because the amount of violence constantly threw me off, it seemed more like a shiny accessory to the plot. Honestly, we could've gotten to the point of the story without half of it. Also...the marketing of this book? Why portray it as a true crime story? Doesn't make sense to me.

Not a bad book, probably just not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Excrement, Car accident, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Kidnapping, Pregnancy

Minor: Alcohol

tormerritt's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad fast-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I felt the beginning of the book was great and it hooked me from the first page, but it became boring toward the middle and end. It felt disjointed and sort of rushed near the end, and also very predictable. I felt the author could have added more details. The start was strong, but the end lacked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Murder

Minor: Kidnapping