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anne311's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Violence, Suicide, Addiction, Alcohol, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Body shaming and Body horror
Minor: Abortion
lilysaddler's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Drug use, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Cursing
Moderate: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Death, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Addiction, Death of parent, Abortion, Body shaming, and Alcoholism
Minor: Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content
amandalorianxo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Forced institutionalization
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
marieeh's review against another edition
3.0
I had kind of suspected something like what happened might be going on kind of mid-way through, but I was thinking
All of the
Very disappointed in the ending
I don't really know what I was expecting out of the book. It was a fine middle of the road story with an awful ending. I read it because I wasn't sure I wanted to watch the show of it on Netflix. Probably will not now.
Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Toxic relationship, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Abortion and Death
thefictionalhevschwar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Stalking
Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death
lilacvictim's review against another edition
- 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
2.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, and Grief
Moderate: Addiction, Stalking, Murder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Gaslighting, and Alcoholism
Minor: Abortion
tbose22's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Abortion
coolbeancat's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Drug abuse, Animal cruelty, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Animal death
Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
horrorghoul's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
*****SPOILERS*****
About the book: Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she’s thrilled she finally connected with someone.When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The man from the bar. The very married man from the bar…who says the kiss was a terrible mistake but who still can’t keep his eyes off Louise.And then Louise bumps into Adele, who’s new to town and in need of a friend, but she also just happens to be married to David. David and Adele look like the picture-perfect husband and wife, but then why is David so controlling, and why is Adele so scared of him?As Louise is drawn into David and Adele’s orbit, she uncovers more puzzling questions than answers. The only thing that is crystal clear is that something in this marriage is very, very wrong, but Louise can’t guess how wrong―and how far a person might go to protect their marriage’s secrets.
Release Date: January 31st, 2017
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Pages: 307
Rating: 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2
What I Liked:
• Fast paced book
• You want to know what's going to happen
What I Didn't Like:
• I don't understand the point of breaking the book up with "Part one, part two... Etc..."
• The direction of this book
• The ending
• All the fucking wine! So many mentions!
Overall Thoughts: Talk about a book that can evoke do many different emotions in only 300 pages. On one hand you're cheering for Louise at the beginning to hating her by the end (she's honestly a shit person who seems to ditch her child even after he's been gone for a month) to Adele who you wonder what shit she's been through herself and why she's such an obsessive crazy bitch. By the ending you just feel bad that she got sucked into this mess.
The beginning of the book you fucking hate hate and hate David by the ending you want to hug him.
Have you every seen Hannibal Holocaust? So the story goes that the people making the film wanted to create something to shock people so badly. They added terrible scenes of animal killings as well as rape scenes. That's how I felt about this book. The author changes the book from a psychological thriller to a science fiction book. By the last few pages your maybe remembering this happening somewhere before but in a different way.... There's a movie starring Kate Hudson that's called The Skeleton Key; in that movie they use Hoodoo to switch bodies and keep body jumping. Oh then that final twist I didn't see coming but it didn't feel like it added anything. The way it's all described from Adele and David's pov it all seens so rushed and random. The way they both described Rob didn't lead anyone to think he loved David or even liked him. There's no way you woukd habe thought that. Plus the notebook left behind comes off like he's in Lust of Adele, but Louise mentioned that pages were torn out, so perhaps Adele aka Rob removed them so she didn't know. Dude that ending though just seemed so added at last minute. I looked back on the book and he just talks shit about him and doesn't even try to stick around when David came to the clinic to see Adele.
Final Thoughts: That ending thought it was going to make me love this book but nope.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
bookishandlegal's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcoholism, Addiction, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Mental illness
Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent