Reviews with content warning for Violence - The Inmate

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k8lynn's review

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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nuuamuikkunen's review

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dark mysterious sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

Plot was a bit too predictable. But the reveals at the end were interesting. This was my second book by McFadden and have to say I liked Never Lie a lot more. The plot twists were better.

Brooke seemed very naive and the name calling part at the school was stupid.

But I liked this interesting combination of romance and thriller.

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literary_laur's review

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dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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klenda_vee's review against another edition

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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

2.0

The most I can say for the lead character is that she’s fully aware that she’s making stupid choices that make things go horribly wrong.

The majority of her internal dialogue is “I know it’s a bad idea to share this information/allow this thing. Someone just told me not to! But it seems harmless enough,” for a solid eight hours.
This isn’t bad in itself (it’s fairly realistic) to start an arc, but we don’t get no arcs today. She makes the same mistakes 99% through the book as she did 5% through and the nature of the mistakes pushing the narrative makes it a deeply frustrating book that I’m not sure why I finished. My consistent feeling was “I could put this down at any point and not feel any drive to finish it.”

The writing technique and prose itself is otherwise very good, the audiobook reader (Leslie Howard) is excellent, and the pacing of the mystery is good and well-constructed.

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crazybooklady89's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I’m giving this one 4 stars even, and it would have been much less but the very very end came as a little surprise. There were several times through this one where I was so annoyed by the FMC. Like… how many times can you ignore red flags before I should consider you to be a red flag? Ugh!! But also, the fact that the author was able to elicit that type of frustration from me shows her skill. I do plan on reading more from her.

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