Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Chain by Adrian McKinty

165 reviews

yalipopcultureads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Stalking, Child abuse, Violence, Cancer, and Murder

vinceoftexas's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I’ve never been a book reader, because they’ve never kept me engaged. BUT this book was absolutely amazing. It kept me wanting to finish, once I started, I couldn’t stop. 
As terrible as the scenario is, this was a fantastic book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Suicide, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Trafficking, Violence, Gore, Drug use, Drug abuse, Bullying, Death, Cursing, Child death, and Child abuse

booksandcoffeewithlexi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Cancer

kira_dylan's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Gun violence

Moderate: Cancer

aedmond's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

Super fast paced with a fascinating concept. I found the characters plausible … for the most part. The ending was very obvious about 100 pages from the end but that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the journey to get there. 

I’ve seen a lot of reviews hounding this book for how “obvious” and “silly” it seems but with a little bit of suspension of disbelief (I mean cmon it isn’t true crime) I found it extremely fun and captivating.

I did think the author got a little too in the weeds with some of the academic name dropping, philosophy, and tech jargon but as a Techie with a degree in philosophy it felt right up my alley.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

rcarr14's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Blood, Death, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Vomit, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

shaleen64's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

If you’re looking for a thriller that is fast paced from start to finish this isn’t for you. However, I enjoyed the plot of this book, which is certainly unique, and the exploration of human morality. It’s worth a read but there’s better thrillers out there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Gun violence, Death, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Self harm, Suicide, and Panic attacks/disorders

tannisz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Addiction, Murder, and Cancer

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Kidnapping, and Murder

erica_reads_things'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? It's complicated

3.5

Ehhhhhh! This book had a super interesting plot and premise, but I could not get past the cringe writing and dialogue at times. The last forth of the book was also just okay compared to the interesting baseline plot of the Chain. Once the second half of the book started I guessed the "twist" right away, unfortunately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Child abuse, Murder, Stalking, Blood, Drug abuse, Death, Addiction, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Confinement

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Cancer

Minor: Sexual content