Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

45 reviews

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-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

2.75

This is interesting, but it had way too many characters for me to keep track of, and I didn't feel like I "knew" any of them, even after 17 hours of audiobook. I also may have not been a huge fan of the writing style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Physical abuse, Stalking, Blood, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Bullying, Classism, Toxic friendship, Violence, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Abandonment, Mental illness, Alcohol, Grief, and Infidelity

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Avoid if you don't like: torture, trying to remember about 24 vaguely similar characters, or telling instead of showing.

shadereads's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Physical abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Rape and War

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

4.0

This was pretty good. Loved the mystery and all the twists and turns it brought us through. It is very long so I'm glad I listened to the audio. I'll be real, I don't think I would've liked it as much if I physically read it because of how long and kind of slow it is. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Alcohol, Confinement, Drug use, Death of parent, and Gun violence

hillarym's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Fatphobia, and Torture

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Drug use

smkelly1997's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book is slow in the beginning but it works. It all adds up.  The last 25% of the book I didn’t want to put down. The twists and turns and a major plot twist at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Blood, Murder, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Suicide, Child death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Torture

augdafrog's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt

ajourneythroughpages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Physical abuse, Child death, Fatphobia, Murder, Deadnaming, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Torture, Classism, Drug use, Gore, and Kidnapping

daylateandabookshort's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

2.5

Started off super strong. However, as the story progressed it was dragged on and on far longer than it should have been. I feel like this book was trying to meet some sort of quota for page numbers or word count, but there are a lot of unnecessary scenes and details that didn't really offer anything to the plot but made it more of a slow dragged out read, especially towards the end 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Death, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

starsbyname's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Blood, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Addiction, Animal death, and Gore

silver_lining_in_a_book's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual violence, Drug use, Rape, Suicide, and Self harm

Minor: Infidelity, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Addiction