Reviews

These Toxic Things: A Thriller by Rachel Howzell Hall

devylish's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-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

3.75

I wouldn’t have guessed the plot, outside of why the memory bank was being put together. Very good overall, but kind of drug out. 

masa22's review against another edition

1.0

After finishing this book I feel frustrated and pissed. The book is laughably long, and it wouldn't be a problem if there was any plot and not just boring day to day activities. The story itself is PACKED, it's doing too much at the same time, the author is telling five different stories that have little to no correlation. 95% of the book goes soooooooo slowly and then by the end we're get thrown chunks of plot so fast that it's hard to realise what's even happening. No need to say that the reveal wasn't as surprising as the author might have thought, you could see it from a mile, and the ending was just underwhelming.

This book was BORING. And it's a thriller. That's the last thing you want and it pretty much sums up the whole thing.

bea_pants's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

simplymodest's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

ccneary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense

3.0

tracy_lianne's review against another edition

2.0

This story had such promise, but there was so much junk that didn't need to be here. I finished it, but it was so very hard!! I had never heard of this author & I don't know if I will read anything else by her. We'll see.

optimisticbooknerd's review against another edition

3.0

This one is tough for me to rate.

I enjoyed the authors previous book And Now She's Gone and gave that one 5 stars because I loved all the twists and turns but unfortunately, I didn't really click with this one, I did guess one of the biggerish plot twists and for that, I think I'll give this one a 3 star but I did really like the writing style

mtafil22's review against another edition

2.0

Wasn't my favorite book. It took a while to get into and make sense of what was happening & not in a mystery type of way. Conversations were vague and character switches were not clear. At first I thought it was the same character and having flash backs but that was not the case.

brittnb08's review against another edition

3.0

I enjoyed the mystery part of this book and trying to figure out who DD was. However there were time when the MC was too focused on dating.

khosch's review against another edition

did not finish.
too much to read to waste time on something I don't like ...