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kthomas0701's review
3.0
Moderate: Sexual assault
april_a_q's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Minor: Sexual assault and Rape
lizdaniii's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Gore, Blood, Rape, Torture, Murder, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Misogyny, Stalking, Gun violence, and Homophobia
leahka89's review
- 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
Graphic: Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Torture, Death, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Racism and Homophobia
askhualrak's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, Medical content, Murder, and Sexual assault
Minor: Homophobia and Racism
skyegbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Death, Addiction, Stalking, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Violence
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Cursing, Misogyny, and Sexism
feelsattack's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Again, too much police work and not enough forensic pathology. I bought this book because I knew Scarpetta was a forensic pathologist and I was hoping to read lots about pathology methods. I guess I should have expected this though, a police investigation through the eyes of the pathologist. Otherwise, I don't have many complaints. Definitely an entertaining read.
Moderate: Sexual violence, Murder, Sexual assault, and Violence
laurabythebook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Murder, and Rape
herecomes_anne's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Murder, Sexual violence, Torture, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Transphobia, Sexism, and Homophobia
booking_along's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
sure some of the language chooches are a bit questionable as to why it’s necessary to word it as it was …. but jerks been over 30 years since this has been written and language does evolve and change so what’s normal now want back than and the other way around. so i can overlook that for the most part.
but the crime itself was great.
how the thriller parts were bild up and solved? wonderfully done!
this is not one of those crime books where r reader can actually solve the case before the big reveal but one that makes the reader question every single character around the main one and if they could be the bad guy.
that’s n it as easily done as it might sound to some, so that was great.
i love the relationship between kay and her niece.
it’s refreshing to see a woman in her 40 being happy with her choices and happy to have a niece she can dote but in no ways miss birthing children .
instead being happy about having made her choices as she did and focusing on her career!
sadly it is rare to see that even now in books were women are accepted without questioning their either their worth or their choices after a specific age is reached and without them having children.
so it was especially nice to see that in a book published in 1990.
all in all this was a very well done and throughout thriller with a good amount of medical info sprinkled in and a very well written crime aspect.
but it’s not for the faint hearted crime lovers. this does get pretty graphic, deals with mentions and talks of rape and murder heavily and also has a good amount of talk that shows that too many men see women as less worthy than they are and quite a few victim blaming moments. so be prepared if you are sensitive to that.
Graphic: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Sexual violence, Blood, Misogyny, Rape, Torture, Body horror, Medical content, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, and Violence