Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

33 reviews

lilysaddler's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Cursing

Moderate: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Death, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Addiction, Death of parent, Abortion, Body shaming, and Alcoholism

Minor: Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

sallysimply's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

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

3.5

Things I didn’t see coming: wild and unnecessary use of the r word, multiple descriptions of animal death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Infidelity

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Ableism

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

3.0

This book had me up until 3/4 of the way. The ending did make me go wtf but not in a pleasing way. It’s too long and slow for me to have been pysched for the ending(I actually felt relieved that it was done.) Louise annoyed me and of course none of them are reliable so believing any of them is  far fetched. I recommend the audio if you want to get through this at a faster pace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

katrinasherise's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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: Animal death, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gaslighting, Body shaming, Drug use, Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Drug abuse

Minor: Death, Abortion, and Death of parent

marieeh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

Really wanted to give this a higher rating because I was really enjoying it until about maybe 3/4 through, but the ending and the very final "twist" just weren't it for me.  

I had kind of suspected something like what happened might be going on kind of mid-way through, but I was thinking

that David and Rob had switched bodies

  Not that I had any idea what that really meant for the story, it was just something that came to mind.  I had no idea of who really had done it.

All of the

out of body experience

kind of took me out of the story.  It pushed everything over into the realm of sci-fi/fantasy just enough that I wasn't super into it.  I know that some people can lucid dream, but it takes a lot of work to get good at it, and the

out of body stuff

was an even bigger reach.

Very disappointed in the ending

I was not happy to see the antagonist not only come out on top but also kill our protagonist?? I know suspense/thriller types don't always have a true "happy" ending but this was just too much for me.  After everything Louise had gone through, it was just very disappointing and unsatisfying, and I hate that it was all kind of up in the air about what will happen to her child and family.   Also I don't know exactly what it was but there was just something mildly homophobic about Rob being in love with David and thinking the only solution was to steal a woman's (Adele) body to be with him.  I mean clearly Rob ended up having some issues but they were just never hinted at or investigated enough for me to believe that he would immediately think that what he did was the only solution.

I don't really know what I was expecting out of the book.  It was a fine middle of the road story with an awful ending.  I read it because I wasn't sure I wanted to watch the show of it on Netflix.  Probably will not now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Toxic relationship, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Abortion and Death

eliwal's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

This book kept me guessing until the LAST page. Great psychological thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Abortion, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

mikmocha's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

0.25

I was incredibly disappointed by this book…

The beginning was great, I was captured by the story and kept wanting to dive deeper in. There was a lot of fatphobia going on in the first 95% of the book. 

But the ending….WTF was that??? The book quite literally could have ended with Adele switching bodies with Louise and that be that. Rob could have remained as a side character and his murder be the reason why Adele would want to switch into Louise’s body- to absolve David of any crime, a fresh start for Adele in Louise’s body and refocus on their relationship. 

But no, in the last couple of pages the only gay character (which we don’t find that fact out until the very end) is now the villain??? Who not only killed actual Adele, killed actual Louise but is now also planning on killing Louise’s child?? Wtf? This is feeding into a lot of homophobic tropes that are quite damaging and harmful. 

I would not suggest this book and I’m not reading more from this author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

abbs15norm's review against another edition

mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, and Toxic friendship

thefictionalhevschwar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book was a whirlwind read, enthralling and addictive like the characters that are within, but shocking and completely mind-boggling. After finishing the book I can now attest to the claim on the front cover of the "the most shocking ending you'll read all year". You will definitely deduce what the ending will be, but only from piecing together pieces of the puzzle placed throughout the story, right from the beginning. This is, if you're paying attention. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Stalking

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

valayne's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

It was an interesting plot and I enjoyed listening to the audible, but it was just too slow for my liking. There was not a whole lot of excitement or thrills throughout the book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion