Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers

29 reviews

stealmysunshine's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol

books4v's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident

afrenette's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Violence, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident

Minor: Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship

ehamlett's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Kidnapping

chelshopkins's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol

staceysobelman's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It’s hard for me to rate this book because I want to give different ratings for the beginning and the end. The first 75% of the book was slow and took me a long time to get through. The last 25% of the book was amazing! And I finished it in one sitting. I definitely did not see the ending coming!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault

bertrandlm's review

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Vomit

Moderate: Infidelity, Car accident

Minor: Cancer, Rape, Sexual assault

leener's review

4.5

dark tense fast-paced

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~ thank you to netgalley and bantam for this arc in exchange for an honest review ! ~

i could not put this one down and read it in less than 24 hours lol

one thing about me is i LOVE an unreliable and hot mess narrator and thought nic was perfect. hated and loved her throughout the whole story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder

Minor: Sexual assault

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious 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: Yes

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     It wasn’t a terrific book, mostly because I didn’t find any of the characters to be likable. They seem to have started as selfish and continued to get more so as the book progressed. The ending was a twist I didn’t see coming, while other “twists” were pretty obvious. 

    This book tackled a lot of hard topics, which made it an overall dark and sad book. I wish it had some glimmer of light in it. It’s quite a depressing read, to be honest. Overall, a decent thriller about bad people doing terrible things, with a lot of twists and turns. I appreciated the lack of a romantic storyline. 

Narrator Rating: 5.0 stars

     The narrator did an amazing job! Great voices for everyone that seemed to fit who they were. 

 

Elements 

Heartfelt- 💔 💔 💔 💔 
Horror- N/A
Love aka Romance-N/A
Predictability- 🔮 🔮 

Spice-N/A
Tear- 😭  😭 
Thrill- 😲 😲 😲 
Humor-N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault

There is NO adult/minor relationship! It's a relationship between a woman in college and a much older man.

harleyglynn's review against another edition

3.5

mysterious tense medium-paced

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This was just ok for me. There was a lot going on and multiple possible outcomes that had me guessing at suspects and scenarios throughout. I admit I definitely did not see the twist coming. All in all, it felt a bit outlandish to me and left me with a lot of unanswered questions, but an entertaining mystery nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Sexual assault, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Abandonment