Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

334 reviews

saisrei's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Alcohol, Gun violence, Addiction, Blood, Death of parent, Infidelity, Medical content, Violence, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

kitza2000's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

i really enjoyed this book. it was a short, easy read and it kept me interested. the turn truely shocked me and i was caught completely off guard, but the ending left me a little unsatisfied as

alicia never got her happy ending

but still, i enjoyed the read!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Child abuse

winniefoster's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Murder

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The Silent Patient is a book that will definitely stay with me for a while. But I'm not sure if it's for quite the right reasons... For sure I was engaged, flew threw it pretty quickly and wanted to know how things would turn out. But for me something was lacking.

For starters, I had the end sussed quite early on. I wasn't surprised, although I appreciated the way everything revealed itself. I struggled to find redeeming characters anywhere, and while I love to hate characters and love a morally ambiguous protagonist, I just couldn't muster an emotional connection to these people.

I've also been left with a LOT of nagging questions. And those are what will stay with me. A few things don't add up for me and I think I need to discuss the book at length. But the very fact that it's on my mind shows it's a good thriller. Just, for me, not a great one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Murder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse and Suicide

priyankachatterjee09's review against another edition

challenging mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

I never have been more shocked ever! The writing was normal, the progression was normal, the plot was normal, but the characters and the ending were unbelievably different.

I can be a good mystery solver and the endings are mostly the same as one of my theories. I had almost 20 30 different theories but not a single one came alive. This was extremely well concluded. 

Psychologically, I agreed, we are all broken!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Abandonment

melissaloritz's review against another edition

mysterious fast-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

5.0

It was my first time reading a thriller but I enjoyed it. The build up towards the plot twist  was great but it still hit me like a brick. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Self harm

shinyfox's review

medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gun violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Infidelity, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Sexual content, and Alcohol

xgabrielle_hx's review

dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Gun violence, Murder, Self harm, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Torture

wickedgrumpy's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

1.0

I think I was unknowingly spoiled for this book years ago and had internalized the twist, even though I knew nothing else about the story, which made this pretty disappointing.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Torture, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

hue's review against another edition

mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

I found it too over written. Instead of it being a "only I can make her talk" sorta story it ended up being pint fed with infidelity.

That being the entire plot eventually and the twists and so didn't spark any interest in me. Perhaps I just don't care for stories where cheating makes shit go around.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Mental illness, Violence, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Gun violence