Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

34 reviews

eureadthis's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Sexism

scylla87's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Somehow this one manages to be even creepier than the first one. More obsession, more death as Joe continues to look for love. A throughly enjoyable read from start to finish.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Murder

anne311's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

5.0

I love this book it was genuinly so much fun to spend time reading it... it's so weird (in a good way) that the very basic premise and events are like in the netflix show and the characters are absolutely in character, but also i never knew where anything was going to go. there are so many divergences ever since book 1 and they are like HUGE things that make it impossible to go the same route as the show. but also it kind of ends up at the same points here and there and it's so weird i love it and i love this writing style so much especially. the informality of it, like using a ton of "and"s to conmect multiple sentences in a grammatically incorrect way really does flow so well, joes mind is racing and this style absolutely encapsulates it. like 5 times on the last couple pages i thought ok this is the end of this book, but it kept going, this book always keeps escalating, i love my time spent with this series and look forward to when i find the time to read book 3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Incest

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-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

4.0

I actually really enjoyed this. I went into it nervous because a lot of people didn’t like this one. I get that it changed from second person to first person, but I honestly didn’t mind it that much. I think the change was good because the first one was mostly stalking and this one wasn’t as heavily about that. I did enjoy the characters. The plot was fine like did I really care about Joe and Love being in love,no, not really. But I just find Joe so interesting. It does end on a cliff hanger so be warned. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Outing, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

ibeforem's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

4.0

This book could be subtitled "Joe goes to Hollywood". After taking care of his Beck problem in the first book, Joe has found himself another girl. He's deliriously happy -- until she does him wrong and flees to Los Angeles. What else could your intrepid stalker/murderer do, but track her down and get his revenge?

I highly recommend the audio version of this book, because I think it really helps you get onto the emotional roller coaster in Joe's brain. He can spin from happy to furious back to happy in an instant, and the narrative really requires you to give yourself over to it. I enjoyed this as much as the first one, and look forward to catching up on the second season of the show. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

sanhatiser's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Gaslighting, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

cayleejanet's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, and Violence

tatiannaskye's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Hoooooolllllllyyyy shit! This book took me through a roller coaster of emotions and made me have a deeper understanding of Joe and actually quite like him compared to the other characters in this book. To say I was pissed off with all the assholes he encountered would be (sadly) an understatement! Even though Joe himself is a narcissistic, antisocial sociopath I still am on his side (for now at least).

But anyways this book surprised me as I didn’t quite enjoy the first book of the You series. First book sucked, second book now has me buying the third book and hopefully it is just as good, if not better than the second and first combined! Ahhh can’t wait!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Lots of Murder and sex, pretty much some sit up at this point. Oh! And stalking too.

attagrrlbailey's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

aeai's review against another edition

dark sad tense

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

1.0

Honestly, just watch the series instead. They had to add so much plot and character development in the series, not to mention depth to the female characters and just any representation of non-white characters... It's not even funny. Also (still) bothered by the misogynistic voice of the narrator, I really don't like internalizing this toxic stuff by reading it. Having seen the second season of YOU, I powered through in hopes of getting to any kind of interesting turning point, but I ended up very disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence