Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

30 reviews

rsagarin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Car accident, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Infertility

Moderate: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Medical content, Death, Classism, Pregnancy, Murder, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Cursing, and Violence

bessadams's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Infertility, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Murder, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, and Miscarriage

Minor: Blood and Suicide

kotletka_polina's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Nice book. Liked the plot twists and the way story progressed: it’s like I’ve been changing who I’m sided with throughout the story.
I just wish it was faster at the beginning, the first 200 pages were exhausting to read and I couldn’t wait for the story to climax. Also didn’t really understand the purpose of adding

private investigator

it gave a lot of information much needed for a plot twist but eventually led to nothing and ended abruptly. 
Overall good thriller, would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Murder, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Infertility, and Toxic relationship

stephlevinemommachine's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Infertility, Toxic relationship, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Miscarriage

missgrangerr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

First Alice Feeney read, will not be the last. The twist really got me which I loved. Will be recommending this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Infidelity

haleybre's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Death, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Infertility, Car accident, and Murder

emmaasbokhylla's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Abortion, Alcohol, Violence, Stalking, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Murder, Death of parent, Grief, Miscarriage, Infidelity, and Car accident

bitchesgottaread's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Infertility, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Car accident, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Violence

priceliketag's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Grief, Animal death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, and Violence

theonlybaillie's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This book was okay. The pacing was just off for me.

The best way that I can describe how reading this book felt was "slow-motion clickbait." I felt like I was supposed to be BEGGING for the big reveal the whole time I was reading, but it wasn't even that amazing in my opinion.

I did really enjoy the short chapters, and I thought that the multi-POV was done well — each character felt distinctive to me. Once the pacing evened out at about 50% in, I enjoyed the storyline too!

Overall, a deeply okay mystery/thriller.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Murder