Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

They'll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman

16 reviews

reedandright's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Toxic relationship, Death, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Racism, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Sexism

aformeracceleratedreader's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Pretty solid story, but I didn't LOVE it. I liked seeing how the sisters relationship grew and changed. I knew a bunch of people who were in crosscountry so that was pretty cool to read a story centered around a sport people don't really focus on. I think the very end was pretty satisfying. Wish Noah would've faced more consequences tho.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Abortion, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Medical content, Murder, Addiction, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

haley49'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

4.25

I really really enjoyed this book. Ya thrillers are very hit or miss and this hit the majority of its beats. I enjoyed the story of sisterhood and how women are often perceived a certain way and it impacts how they are treated by the men in power. I liked the brief inclusion on how this perception of women impacts races differently. 

However, it did slip up in the end and the cause-effect did not seem to add up for certain characters and the ending was a but abrupt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexism, Abortion, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Lesbophobia, Racism, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

yananhai's review against another edition

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

3.0

something doesn't add up for me... if Raven just dropped Mila down and left her there dead, why was there a blood trail? why did Ellie and Noah not find her body when they looked in the pit later in the day? why was there a blanket covering her body? 
just for these questions I'm gonna tale off one star, so overall 3 ⭐

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Murder, Abortion, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Drug use

libraryghost'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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, and Murder

sienna1508's review

adventurous mysterious 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

I kinda guessed the mystery for this one but I still liked the character-building in the story. It was mostly fast-paced except it was a bit repetitive. But overall I enjoyed it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, and Abortion

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Grief, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Blood

booksofautumn's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Alcoholism, Murder, Pregnancy, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, and Violence

lia_reads_123's review

challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

I loved this book. It loses a half point because the beginning was slow at some points and the ending was partially predictable (I'll go into more detail at the bottom under spoiler tags). Otherwise, it was amazing. The characters aren't always great people, but you can see why they're doing certain things. The last quarter of the book was my favorite part, because questions started getting answered and pieces started falling into place, just for more questions to be brought up.

I said the ending was partially predictable, and by that I mean Ellie's involvement. Around the time Mila disappeared, the book started focusing much more heavily on Stella's POV and never explained where Ellie was the morning, making it fairly easy to realize Ellie wasn't innocent. However, Raven's involvement was COMPLETELY unpredictable. She would've been the last one I guessed. I did like that it made us think it was just Ellie and Noah, only to reveal that Raven did much worse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Abortion, and Bullying

Minor: Toxic friendship

bekah1210's review

mysterious 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug abuse, Abortion, Violence, Gaslighting, Death, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Eating disorder, Body shaming, and Bullying

bethany_grace's review

dark 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

RAVEN???!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexism, Medical content, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Murder