Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

55 reviews

magicsarah's review

dark mysterious tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Emotional abuse

stephaniezd's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

Solidly a four. Interesting storyline and the ending caught me by surprise. I was definitely following along with the narrator and reached the same conclusions, only to be shocked in the end! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Abortion

jamiee_f's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

Everyone in this book was terrible and it somehow wasn't that fun.

Sophie moves back to her hometown and becomes obsessed with sassy gun toting Margot, in a bunny-boiler kind of way. She earns an invite to their Friday night hunting club, where the married ladies all go out and pick up dudes. Sophie, despite being married with a child, is sucked into these girls nights out and keeps missing curfew and blowing off her husband. She then finds out that Margot is having an affair with one of the other women's son! Ick ick ick. She has a brief dalliance with another teen, and I do think pedophilia makes you irredeemable. There is some cat and mouse when the teen boy's girlfriend shows up murdered, with Sophie thinking she's being framed, but ultimately it was the mom of the boy Margot's been sleeping with. Whatever. Messy ladies who did not get their deserved comeupance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Murder, Gun violence, Drug abuse, and Pedophilia

vj_thompson's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

What a ride. After the 250ish page hump, the book picks up. Infidelity is a large plot point for this book, which is why I assume most people rate this book low. I am also not a fan of that plot line either but boy oh boy did the story get good after that. The hunting wives are just a bunch of women who seem perfect but beneath everything, they are hiding secrets and their own guilty pleasures. The ending was crazy. If only you could see my face/reactions after reading some of the plot twists. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Cursing, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Drug use, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death and Gun violence

Minor: Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, and Pregnancy

blucbell's review

emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

interesting plot! 
there was nothing happen in the first 200 pages.
i agitated how the main character pissed me off too much, thus i hate her and didn't enjoy reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Infidelity, and Pedophilia

ailecamacho's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Murder, Gun violence, and Toxic friendship

mrsmishler's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Alcohol

Moderate: Murder and Abortion

willow_21_05's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book was very good if you like medium to slow paced books, as it takes a while for the plot to begin and actual thicken. Towards the end of the book the plot is THICK and start moving very fast. This builds the tension and made me want to carry on reading. I don't think this book will be for everyone and there is some touchy subjects within the book (Look up triggers). However I would recommend this book to someone who like mystery books and as a one off book to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

vicktorea's review

mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

 very silly stupid pathetic bitches but I wasn’t bored and fairly entertained 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Murder, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship

renpen's review

slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Alcohol, Gun violence, and Sexual content