Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek

11 reviews

dostocosto's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

atelopxobia's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Read it one sitting. Solid read, pretty gripping mystery, a good short page-turner to get you out of a reading slump. The big plot twist is relatively predictable but a lot of smaller ones did get me off guard! Lots of Shutter Island vibes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Animal death, Child abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Mental illness and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Ableism, Grief, and Medical content

virgowhoreads's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

This book completely gripped me from the beginning.  The only thing that stopped me from giving it a full five stars, is I guessed the twist at the 39% mark.  Normally that would completely knock down the rating, but it remained so tense and kept me on the edge of my seat either way.  The final twist I didn't see coming though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

jani_mcgonagall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Car accident

timedothwasteme's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, Medical content, Mental illness, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Alcohol

van_wolfing's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

booksaremysoulmates's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative 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

Finished my next book by Fitzek and honestly I‘m not disappointed. Considering that this one was his debut novel is completely insane. Even his very first book was genius. This is such a good debut thriller with amazing plot twists that keep you on the edge all the way through. I really thought I had it all figured out but damn was I wrong. 

This book is about Victor who‘s a psychiatrist whos daughter goes missing. That‘s all you should know before starting this one, because the less you know the better. Again I read the german version but there‘s also an english version of this book. So please if you like thrillers with plot twists than give this one a try. Now I need to decide which Fitzek book I‘m going to read next. 

Trigger warnings: mental illness, animal death, animal cruelty, violence, child abuse and child death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

luananki's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

meiner meinung nach einer der besten fitzek bücher. das buch hat mich von der ersten seite an gefesselt und war wirklich spannend. 

gegen ende hin wurde jedoch ein bisschen zu lange darauf angespielt wie offensichtlich die lösung doch sei, sodass es sich irgendwann sehr gezogen hat. 

das ende war schlüssig und ein guter abschluss zur geschichte. 

guter thriller, hat mir echt spaß gemacht.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Animal death

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Stalking

igre's review

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Beautifully written 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Minor: Stalking, Animal death, and Child death

ahjo0o's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Murder, and Vomit