Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown

8 reviews

savreads28's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cursing, Medical trauma, Blood, Death, Violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Bullying, Outing, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Murder, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

binxkingdom's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Violence, Outing, Car accident, and Stalking

giuliaprim's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

itsareference's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The book had some flaws but it depicted trauma, grief, and abuse in an extremely accurate light.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Stalking, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Homophobia

anniereads221's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Car accident, Violence, Alcohol, Homophobia, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

pastelkerstin's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Lesbophobia, Self harm, Vomit, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Outing, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Eating disorder, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Sexual assault, Racism, and Sexual content

hatoooz's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

stayed up for 6 hours reading this, i was kind of delusional by the end (and maybe halfway through) but it was one of my favourite reads of 2019 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Stalking, and Torture

cynosure's review

dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

This is one of the best books I have ever read, it’s written so beautifully and really encapsulates grief and what comes with it. It was so tense in some places and I absolutely loved it and I love Savannah Brown’s fluid writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual harassment