Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen

6 reviews

siobhanward's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

The Rizzoli & Isles books may be my new favourite mystery/thriller series. The characters are well-written, the plots are interesting and mostly come together (I was questioning how some things were going to be relevant to the plot, but eventually Gerritsen pieced it all together), and everything is really fast-paced. This one was particularly creepy and honestly kind of disturbing at times, which was perfect. I'm really glad there are a bunch of books left in this series for me to read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Child death, and Pregnancy

ofclumsywords's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

Another great book in the Rizzoli and Isle series! The mystery was well done and not at all predictable. Both Rizzoli and Isles are strong female characters and it's exciting going along with them solving different cases. There wasn't too much side story besides Jane and Maura's romantic relationships which in Maura's case pertained to the storyline while Jane aided in her character development and saw a different side to her than the cop who has to keep up with all the guys she works with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical trauma, Violence, Medical content, Genocide, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Incest, and Blood

aliteracja's review against another edition

mysterious 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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Rape and Pedophilia

mostpeoplecallmemilo's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Rape, and Murder

Minor: Genocide, Blood, Child death, Gore, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Cursing, Incest, Misogyny, and Sexual content

our_bookish_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

Tess Gerritsen is such an brilliant writer! I forgot how much I love this book, The Sinner! And holy shit it is amazing, twisted, gruesome, and oddly realistic in many ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Medical trauma, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

cara_jacobs's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Rape