Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Inmate by Freida McFadden

77 reviews

frankiet1998's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Blood

michaela_nelly's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Car accident, Death, Body horror, Bullying, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Violence

taylorp98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Loved it. I have yet to read a McFadden that doesn’t surprise me. I am still shook. How did I not see it coming?! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Stalking, Blood, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Murder

charlotte_helen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? No

3.75

Not the best book I’ve read by this author but good for a different type of read. I found myself not really connecting with many of the characters and guessing some of the plot twists. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Violence, Gun violence, Grief, Car accident, Child death, Police brutality, Death of parent, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

kyahs's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Murder, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Death of parent

kyraplummer's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Medical content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Confinement, Death of parent, Murder, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Blood

niya_books's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I honestly don’t know how I feel part of me feels like I was being gaslit the entire time, even though I knew what was going on, especially towards the end. They were definitely trying harder to make us believe it was this one specific person just to have it flipped on its head, so yeah I would say it’s an OK read nothing spectacular. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Car accident

klenda_vee's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Medical content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying and Car accident

primrosette's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent