Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

139 reviews

laurapage05's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault

inesgoncalves's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Death, and Death of parent

lchoinski's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Gore, Violence, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcohol

mostlybees's review

I wasn’t a big fan of the book overall but the

animal death and pedophilia

were the end for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Animal death

Moderate: Pedophilia

sare1125's review

dark emotional 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, and Violence

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

heidimc's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

wheelzor's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Child abuse, Violence, Drug abuse, Cursing, Pedophilia, Child death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Gore, Murder, Death, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal cruelty

bmuertz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

chelsealeem'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Vomit, Animal cruelty, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Bullying, Sexual content, and Alcoholism