Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Fury by Alex Michaelides

70 reviews

skyfluff's review against another edition

2.25

dark mysterious tense 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

aaannina's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

rd77's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The twist was pretty clear coming up but I feel like in general the last few chapters were actually very well written which still made it engaging despite the predictability. It reminds me a LOT of the second knives out movie but overall a good quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

kelisabeth's review against another edition

5.0

challenging funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

whoiscelena's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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At first I didn’t like the breaking of the fourth wall but then it became really interesting. Lots of twists and turns in the book. Wish it was a bit longer to explain the ending more but I guess that’s a part of the mystery. The book had me on the tip of my toes!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence

justagir1's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Blood, Acephobia/Arophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Self harm, Excrement, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Classism

uphorikbooks's review against another edition

4.75

dark funny mysterious reflective fast-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

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Alcohol

timlucier's review against another edition

2.75

funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I have to give the Fury a few marks:

• EXCELLENT cover art. Really drew me in.
• I really appreciated Michaelides' humorous writing style and his prose- particularly at the beginning when speaking of the wind on the Greek isles.
• Certainly an interesting twist on an Agatha Christie-like tale... Reminiscent of the Glass Onion in a few ways.  As a theatre person I appreciate that actors and writers dominated the story and spoke of their situations like a play.. Originally, I loved that Elliott "imagined" the other's scenes, truly my first time seeing an unreliable omniscient narrator.

Now then: I have to say for a book that I was sucked into from the first page, I really felt let down by the end.  I enjoyed none of the characters, (especially not the protagonist, but maybe that was the point.) I found the story heavy on the British characters and storyline from home and light on the Greek influence, which I expected more of from the cover art, description, and author's name.

Halfway through the book, I was ready for it to end.  Certainly, there are some fun twists but altogether I just found them a bit depressing to read rather than witty.  I was glad it was relatively short.  All in all, a good set up but I can't help but feel it was not for me by the end- definite nosedive.

I listened to the audiobook and found Alex Jennings to be a good reader - though I will contradict other reviewers and say I did not find his "Greek accented" characters to sound particularly Greek.  Not a big deal, but saw other reviewers praise it and.... Have to disagree.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

summerofsoaps's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-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: Bullying, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Stalking, Murder

Minor: Child abuse

chloecam's review against another edition

1.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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put me into a reading slump - unfortunately not for me and i thought i would love it as i'm in the acting industry so know a lot of the references, but o mg did it drag and sometimes i can deal with an unreliable narrator but holy moly this was next level. I did not care about any of the characters and the final twists had me rolling my eyes i was actually so frustrated at the whole big
so sorry to the author lol 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Stalking