Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Inmate by Freida McFadden

158 reviews

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

---

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

---

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

k8lynn's review

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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Stalking, Violence, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

shelgold's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Gripping, tense, & mysterious. Nothing is as it seems, I was on the edge of my seat until the very end. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Stalking, Physical abuse, Bullying, and Classism

Minor: Kidnapping

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. 

---

Content Warnings

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

Minor: Car accident

nuuamuikkunen's review

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.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Body shaming and Fatphobia

literary_laur's review

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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, and Violence

sevenletters's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Gaslighting, and Gore

paperkindle's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.0

When those two plot twists hit 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gun violence and Medical content

Minor: Stalking

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. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Medical content

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

Minor: Bullying and Car accident