Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Inmate by Freida McFadden

128 reviews

pagesintranslation's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

megan_wy's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

Was going to give this 2 stars, but the epilogue brings it up to a 2.5 for me. This was my third Freida book, and they have all felt like the same exact plot in different fonts. I was a little disappointed when this plot felt exactly the same as the last two. Murder mystery with flashback stories the whole book and just waiting to see what the twist is because you know it’s not going to be obvious. This one felt really far fetched and the murder story was way too unrealistic. Brook was soooooo easily persuaded and annoyed me so much. The little part of the epilogue from Josh’s pov was my favorite part of the whole book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Death of parent

ky001113's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Gun violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

jenniferbowman's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing and Sexual content

Minor: Gun violence

bluebunny33bean'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Crazy book! Took me awhile to read only bc of not doing well! Usually would have been read quick!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Minor: Bullying, Gun violence, Police brutality, Stalking, Car accident, and Death of parent

luna_98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

typical freida: fast-paced and entertaining. i did guess a few of the twists but still a solid read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

This is my book club’s choice for November. I had heard of Freida McFadden and have been wanting to read her books for the longest time and I think this is a sign to read more of her work.  

This book is based on Brooke Sullivan, and she is the new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison and there are three rules she must always follow: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates. And they certainly don’t know that Shane was Brooke’s high school sweetheart – the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke’s testimony was what put him there. But Shane knows. And he will never forget.  

This was an easy read with the fact that I had a guess on who it was from the beginning, I'm going to put that down to the fact that I've read a lot of thrillers and mystery books from Christ Carter to Alice Feeney, so when I got a feel of the chapters I knew who it was. The only thing that had me shocked from the epilogue from Josh, I was ready to rate this book three stars and then the epilogue happened. I would have loved this book to have multiple POV from Shane, Tim and Josh because they were key characters throughout the book. Once the answers started falling into place, the book moved quite quickly along, and it didn’t take me that long to read.  

Brooke was way too trusting, for a small town where everyone knew what happened and she was still getting crap for it, why on earth would you come back and then just let the guys from that night into your house and around your child? Again, she came back from New York, did she not think to ask around about the Nanny to see if she was not a creep? I just had so many questions? Did Shane break the inmate fingers? Who was beating him? Is this how he was being manipulative? Why was Tim worried about the police going down to his basement if he didn’t kill Kelli? We knew it was going to be one of the people from the night in the house, but I would have loved for it to be like someone’s ex-partner or family member or something that would have shocked me.  

This was an easy read with the fact that I had a guess on who it was from the beginning, I'm going to put that down to the fact that I've read a lot of thrillers and mystery books from Christ Carter to Alice Feeney, so when I got a feel of the chapters I knew who it was. It was an entertaining read, but I wasn’t shocked or freaked out like I usually am with psychological thriller, but I will give Freida another chance to surprise me.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content, Car accident, 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

jadencove's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder