Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

9 reviews

meagalou's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.25

The twist wasn’t great & did not give answers to the main character’s insomnia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Child death, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Cancer, Death of parent, Infertility, and Medical content

abbysue3's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Infertility, Kidnapping, Death, and Death of parent

bookiesncreme's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Miscarriage, Blood, and Child death

chelle22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Child death, Dysphoria, Kidnapping, Rape, Blood, Cancer, Deadnaming, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

jacksonaugust33's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Cancer

Moderate: Kidnapping and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

uhhlexiconic's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-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

2.75

An interesting premise let down by the plotting and twist, When the Lights Go Out was a disappointment 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Cancer, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Stalking, and Drug use

siobhanward's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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

 Normally, I'll bump my rating up when a thriller has a twist that catches me totally off-guard. However, Kubica went with the worst cop-out twist ever, so unfortunately I had to drop my rating, because even though I didn't see it coming, it was kind of on-par with "actually Jessie is a space alien and that's why she doesn't have an SSN." So much reading for nothing. It gets two stars for at least not being outright offensive (and I'm in a good mood I guess). But man, what this a disappointment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

jennay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

sallytiffany's review

emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

This book, incredibly written, wonderful characters, compelling storyline, but my gosh, made me scream in my car. Break down in tears. And want to hurl it across the room if it wasn't an audio book. Hence, taking off stars for emotional distress. Going to take awhile to recover from that one. But well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, and Rape

Minor: Suicide