Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

The Fear by Natasha Preston

4 reviews

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

First, hated the ending.

It felt like the author just gave up on the story, and it didn't read at all like a mysterious ambiguous choice.

Second, like the other book I read by this author, the premise is really promising, but the execution doesn't work. It doesn't seem like she knows what a meme is as opposed to a social media trend. And these kids skip school WAY too much for the current technological age. It's just not realistic. I think I need to move onto another author. Also too many people died again for me to really try to care about each one. I feel like the author gets away with not digging into deep emotion by just killing another character. So the characters have murder whiplash instead of facing their grief and fear.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Bullying, Violence, Blood, Abandonment, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

emmag08's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Kidnapping, Death, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Bullying, Gaslighting, Grief, and Child death

katipheria's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Stalking, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Child death, and Torture

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, and Bullying

fictionaladventures's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

2.0

This was okay, but definitely not great. None of the characters felt like real people. I just didn’t believe most of the story. There was a lot of stupid high school drama that I didn’t need. The main character was incredibly dumb so much of the time. I’m not sure what to think of the ending—I think I liked the twist, but it felt super abrupt to just end it there. I felt like my copy was missing the last 50 pages lol.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Grief, Gore, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Child abuse