Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Inmate by Freida McFadden

20 reviews

kotashomelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

kareimer's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

nclausel25's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Medical content, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Stalking and Abortion

joisaddler's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

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

I keep reading these McFadden books, but she tends to make her female characters kind of, as Junie B. Jones would put it, dumb bunnies. Almost like they can't hold two thoughts in their heads at one time. Like this gal could only focus all of her energy on one line of thinking and not consider anything else going on around her. The story was fine. The premise didn't seem incredibly realistic, but at least in this book, incarcerated people weren't treated as much of monsters as the mentally ill people were in her other book. McFadden is always going to give you a twist at the end

but I didn't find this one terribly satisfying. Maybe have read too many of her books?

It was fine!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Blood, and Police brutality

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

juliaarcisz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

jwag2016's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I hate to admit this is my first Freida McFadden read, but here we are and I’m only upset I didn’t start sooner (in my defense, her books have been on my shelf…)

I don’t often get caught off guard with endings, but the plot twists this book took were unreal. I enjoyed every twist, turn and fork in the road. My only complaint is that it is a very simple writing style for the intense content, but I don’t necessarily find that to be a flaw. Rather, they are reads I can pick up whenever, no matter how tired I may be. 

4/5 ⭐️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Violence, and Murder

kiwichill's review against another edition

challenging 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

An excellent thriller, well paced, lots of twists that weren't predictable or unbelievable,  and an excellent ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

charlotte_helen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? No

3.75

Not the best book I’ve read by this author but good for a different type of read. I found myself not really connecting with many of the characters and guessing some of the plot twists. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

kaylasbookgram's review against another edition

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

Brooke was told not to get close to the inmates at her new job as nurse practitioner at a prison but what her new boss doesn’t know is one of the prisoners are there because of her. 

This book was so amazing! Just when I thought I knew who the bad guy was a huge twist would happen and it’s change! So crazy! I didn’t know what story to believe or what was the true story! And I loved every second of it! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder