Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

75 reviews

keelywmson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I really enjoyed this book! I read it in a day on the way to and from Chicago for C2E2. To be fair, I enjoy a medium paced book more than a lot of people but the emotional/psychological intrigue was enough to keep me engaged until the plot twists started to hit. And they do come one after another. Over all, very enjoyable. I was pleasantly surprised with the types of twists and though I’m not usually a fan of an open ending, this one didn’t bother me the way they normally would. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Murder, Death, Alcohol, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Infidelity, Body horror, Adult/minor relationship, and Domestic abuse

ucancallmejayyy's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Death, Eating disorder, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dementia, Physical abuse, Violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual violence, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Blood, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Cursing

adella_quick's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

Even though it was a little predictable, I really enjoyed this book. Sometimes figuring out the answers ahead of time gives you satisfaction instead of annoyance, and there were enough twists that I didn't see them all coming. 

I don't read thrillers often so I'm probably not the best reviewer for it but it was pretty good as far as tension and mystery. 

The spice level was good for me (fade to black).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence, Gun violence, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Death, Cursing, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

oobergoober's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I had to take a break from romantasy and had been wanting to dive into mysteries. This had been in my library for some time, and I'm glad I finally got started! This book was well written and flows great plus the twists and turns at the end had me mind blown! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Self harm

diothyst's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

What Lies in the Woods had me hooked from the very beginning, it leads you on a long winding trail of possibilities but never allows one to stick until the very end. I was able to figure out part of the twist ending early on but the manner of it and the true depths of the twist still had me shocked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Gun violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Blood

coliescorner's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide attempt, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Murder, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Body horror, and Mental illness

Minor: Vomit, Cancer, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

khaben31's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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: Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Death, and Cursing

Minor: Gun violence

mhh831666's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

idk if it's really a 5 star thriller or if I'm just emotional because I'm 4 days sober from those fun life ruining opiates but either way, I can't think of any way to improve this one so I suppose it's a 5 star 🤷🏼‍♀️. plus it's beautifully written and the characters are so real you can taste them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Rape, Death, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gore, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

macyforthun's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

deshanejt's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Somewhat convoluted, but still very good! It definitely had you guessing. Perfect who-dunnit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, and Gun violence

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Self harm

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Sexism, Addiction, Pregnancy, and Drug use