Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

224 reviews

sarah_amy's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

4.5

Loved this so much! And hated it too, but for all the right reasons. There were twists and turns in just about every chapter and I never knew what I was going to be surprised with next! I was taken surprise by each revelation, which never happens for me and I never knew who to trust. Only complaint is it was almost too graphic to stomach. If it hadn't been so well written and I didn't care about the characters, I might have stopped. Lots of very graphic torture, violence & death. Be warned. I have a headache and I've had dreams about this book. But it was so good. I'm very confused how I should be feeling haha. My first and probably not my last Karin Slaughter book, but I'll definitely be needing a palette cleaner in between.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Child death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder, Kidnapping, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Torture, Death, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Cursing, Dementia, Alcoholism, Car accident, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Abandonment, Grief, and Addiction

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I can’t decide how to rate this book. It includes some of the most disgusting and depraved ways a person can possibly think. It’s so dark. I didn’t realize how awful it was going to be until it was too late. The only reason I was able to keep reading was because the two women at the center were worthy of rooting for. Ultimately, it’s a four instead of a five for me because there were parts that were too unbelievable and too sadistic, and I don’t ever want to be mistaken as condoning violence against women for any reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Fatphobia, Dementia, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Suicide, Abandonment, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Child death, Mental illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Medical trauma, and Rape

tcrivera12's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Death, and Grief

bethanybreton's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

Oh my god. Incredible, but extremely graphic and disturbing. Not for the faint of heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Violence, Sexual content, Murder, Torture, Suicide, Physical abuse, Drug use, and Domestic abuse

kmnva's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

I hated everything about this and how scary it was. It definitely felt like the author was going for pure shock factor most of the time. So this was scary and disturbing and worst of all utterly predictable. The setup was slightly confusing enough to where there is an air of mystery until you understand how the characters are associated. Then I - who am usually awful at predicting - could tell where the entire story went. But I thought there is so much of the book left, there’s no way I’m going to be right about this. But no I was they just took a long and loquacious road to get there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Drug use, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Car accident, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Rape, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Trafficking, Violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Stalking

irbp123's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, Grief, Blood, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

hanlov's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Doing this on audio and not checking trigger warnings first probably didn’t help my experience, but this wasn’t really for me. It was overly graphic and the pace really fell off after about the 30% mark when you could just already see everything play out like a Criminal Minds episode. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Death, Blood, Murder, Death of parent, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Body horror, and Rape

samantha_sahm_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Gore, Torture, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

Minor: Fatphobia and Vomit

jcampos33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Rape, Emotional abuse, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Body horror, Murder, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Grief, Addiction, Gore, Death, Stalking, and Blood

This book was incredibly heavy, violent and very explicit when describing the abuse. The scenes with murder and post mortem depravities were extremely graphic The story itself was also my worst nightmare

mmcdonnell95's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Torture, Death, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Gore, and Rape