Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

7 reviews

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

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Suicide, Gun violence, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Abandonment, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Classism, Death of parent, and Medical content

Minor: Stalking, Gaslighting, Cancer, and Child abuse

littlemissanalog's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Blood, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Classism, Murder, Bullying, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Violence, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

hannahcstocks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Murder, Stalking, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide attempt, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Cancer and Death of parent

lauren_shilling's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

This is my second five star read in a row! It's gonna make it into my top favorite of the year too. I'm gonna have to have a really good reading year from now on for anything to top this. This book reignited my love of thrillers, I swear. This book is so dark and twisted and creepy and it checked all of my boxes. There was only one plot twist out of the many that there were that I actually guessed going into it. I loved Naomi's character and how she was written. She was messy and she was so realistic and she was great. And I also desperately and thoroughly need to talk about Ethan. I don't even know how to talk about him. He gave me so much whiplash and the whole time I wanted to distrust him so badly but he was so disarming and so likable and I couldn't tell if it was sincere, but I so desperately wanted it to be, because he appears to be such a golden human being. I won't say whether or not he should be trusted or not, though. This book was so dark and so disturbing, and as someone who played a lot of make believe games with my friends when I was the age these characters were, this hit fears and terrors I didn't know I had. The plot twists were SO GOOD. Check trigger warnings though because it was a really dark book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer and Death of parent

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic friendship, Death, Blood, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Child abuse, Abandonment, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Sexism, Death of parent, Cursing, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

leebeeloves's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Cancer