Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Final Girls by Riley Sager

31 reviews

fate_of_ansley's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Drug abuse, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Stalking, Suicide, Murder, and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape

sarah_onyxartemis's review against another edition

Good book just not at all my cup of tea. I'm only just crawling out of a major reading slump so I'm not going to force myself to get through it. Not right now at least. Maybe I'll pick it back up down the road.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, and Mental illness

bookishgoob's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

2.0

“I’m the moth that got careless with the flame. Now i’m engulfed” slow paced and utterly uninteresting in the first half, you follow a girl with no memory of what happened to her after being the only survivor of a massacre that left all of her friends dead. she was the only survivor. she was a “final girl” a term used when talking about horror movies most of the time to describe the girl at the end of a movie that is the only survivor of what happened. the first 50% of this book left me with the feeling of wanting to just not finish at all but I don’t like to DNF books unless it’s so terrible or uninteresting so i pushed through and finished it. the twists and turns were surprising, but only to an extent. i called a few of them from a mile away, a few of them though were not so easy to spot. switching from the final girls perspective to a 3rd person account of what happened to her 10 years early was an interesting choice, just not very well executed in my opinion. not getting much on either end of the story made it dull and it felt slightly repetitive. all in all, i’m glad i finished it but i would not read it again and i don’t think i would really recommend it. unless you like slow paced stories that really feel like they have no direction in the beginning. i give this read a 2/5. it was an okay spooky season read. but if you have a choice between this title, or another thriller, i would vote that you get the other one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Torture

alinwonderland's review against another edition

dark 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: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Car accident, Cursing, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Forced institutionalization

moon's review

dark emotional 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

2.75

wow, i'll admit i didn't see that plot twist coming at all. the writing is decent too and managed to capture my attention so much i finished the book in 2 days.

the not so great stuff: literally no diversity. characters were frustrating as hell, especially quincy.

i'm kinda mad that quincy still managed to escape any sort of accountability at the end. she really just sat by and let tina take the fall for her. i know it was done "against her protests" but let's be real, if she really didn't want tina to make a false confession on her behalf, she would've actually done something about it instead of making empty objections.

while the writing and plot managed to hook me in, i wasn't impressed by anything else so i don't know if i can say i would recommend this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit

travelthrupages's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

carisamarie's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Stalking, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Incest, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Death, Cursing, Confinement, Blood, and Alcohol

gvspn'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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Blood, Cursing, Drug use, Drug abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, and Misogyny

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

sonygaystation's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

2.0

This was NOT the book for me!!! I predicted who was really behind everything from the minute we're first introduced to them so I didn't even really feel all that satisfied cuz I could've DNF'd it and known the entire plot. I really liked Sager's Home Before Dark so maybe his books are just a hit or miss for me. Sometimes when books irritate me I can't stop asking myself what the book added to the genre, and this was definitely one of those. I also kept asking myself why it was necessary for a man to tell a story about a woman's trauma especially when it concerns graphic physical, emotional, and sexual violence. Like why did HE of all people feel compelled to tell that story? I don't even really think he did it in a way that was sensitive either. For books with graphic discussions of suicide I feel like that needs to be addressed with care, which means literally two (2) seconds of research on the topic would churn up the fact that "die by suicide" is a much better and less stigmatizing phrase to use than "committed suicide." This is minor but it also pissed me off that one of the scenes discussing one of the character's first times having sex actively talked about how painful it would be. It bothers me that the painful first-time penetration narrative gets pushed by people (more alarming that a man is perpetuating it like damn dude that's telling) who clearly missed some important parts of sex education (news flash: it should not be painful the first time ever). This next feeling is more major, but I was also pretty frustrated that one of the pivotal scenes that help develop the MC's personality involved a homeless man with a drug addiction who just HAPPENS to be latinx/e. Like, really?? We gotta add on racism, as well?? This book was just predictable and boring and pretty much was insensitive with regards to literally every "gritty" topic it covered.

At least Sager reinforced the ACAB narrative. My distrust of c*ps came in handy this time lol.

content warnings: graphic violence, grief, death, murder, suicide, abuse (physical, emotional, and sexual), mental illness (PTSD, trauma), drug addiction and abuse (talks about crack and xanax)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Car accident, Eating disorder, and Vomit

lorie336's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

When I first read this book when it debuted I enjoyed it, but life happened and I was at least halfway through the book. For those who read this book it was the part after Quinn did something terrible in the park at night. 

Little did I know that I was coming down the first hill of this rollercoaster ride, so when I picked this book up again and started from the beginning I was ready.

This is like an 80's slasher movie crossed with Hitchcock because I never saw that ending coming, never, and I am pretty good at predicting what will happen. Riley Sager of course led me on to believe I was right, but right near the end pulled the rug from under me and told me I was completely wrong.

My head is just spinning and because it was his debut novel it was excellent. This was a tease of a book and some may it's a little slow in the beginning and perhaps you're right, but it didn't hamper my experience, yes, it was a bit of a slow burn, but every chapter had a kernel of something new to mull over.

So, let's break this down a bit. Quinn is a Final Girl basically an only survivor of a mass killing and there are two more just like her, Sam and Lisa. The story opens on the news of Lisa's suicide which upsets Quinn who is living quietly in New York with her boyfriend Jeff, who is a public defender, when she hears the news and I believe it's from Coop the cop who rescued her that fateful night when the massacre happened. He likes to keep in touch with her to make sure she's doing okay. Because of the suicide Sam the other final girl comes out if hiding to meet Quinn and ends up staying with her for some time. 

Things get a little dicier when questions arise about if Lisa killed herself or if someone murdered her. Sam is also hiding a few secrets of her own that could potentially put Quinn in danger. Then the question of Quinn's memory of that night, why doesn't she remember or is she knowingly protecting someone or did the killer have help?

Find out more by reading it.

Content/trigger warnings: violence, murder, sex, a little foul language, mentions of rape, inappropriate touching, and I think that's most of it. Be advised that this is a thriller and not meant for everyone to read.

Enjoy!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Cursing