Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

47 reviews

traumaqueen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

missmichalalynn's review against another edition

dark slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Vomit, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Death, Death of parent, Confinement, Car accident, Blood, and Addiction

dannybrown59's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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

Wow. This book had me on the edge of my seat. It is extremely dark and disturbing. Very graphic so definitely pay attention to the trigger warnings before reading. You really feel the grief and sadness of the characters as you read this. Especially with the journal entries. It was hard to stomach at times. I just love the way this was written with how it goes between the sisters and the dad. You can see how the loss of Julia affected everyone. Even the mom who tried to hide it so well. As I kept reading this I kept hoping for the best for this broken family but things just kept getting worse. As the crimes get unsurfaced things just get bleaker. I was really happy with the ending as well. All of my questions got answered and it ended on a better note.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Drug use, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming

breannamarie619's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.75

Great writing and characters but the violence is gratuitous and heavy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Car accident

djoseph's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

jezebelligerent's review against another edition

dark sad 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

2.0

Honestly, the majority of the book was just torture porn for shock value. It felt grossly exploitative. The plot was predictable the whole way through. I listened to the audiobook, and hated the characters so much I was just screaming “shut up” over the narrator towards the end.

Claire’s “uwu my husband murdered my sister in a snuff film and also hundreds of other women and I literally saw the videos of it but I still have feelings for him” waffling and “women are being tortured and murdered but the real tragedy is that I WAS LIED TO while I lived in luxury this needs to be about me” attitude was beyond annoying. Lydia’s characterization was basically just “disrespectful caricature of a fat woman” from the very second she was introduced. Neither character was ever given any depth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

amaris13's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit