Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

124 reviews

readwithandreina's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, and Mental illness

astrohime's review

dark mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

Gets straight at it which I like, and a good page turner. Good plot and twists and turns along the way, some more predictable than others.  The end didn’t blow me away, but all in all a really well written book that kept my attention 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, and Kidnapping

alsnapp's review

challenging mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, Mental illness, and Bullying

deltabaddie's review

adventurous hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.25

This is a quick read! I finished the book with my jaw on the ground! The twists at the end were amazing.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

mayra96's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ok so here’s my beef. 

The whole book, since the beginning, I knew Marco was in on it. There was no doubt about that. That fact itself threw me off because I was like “why would it be so obvious that he was involved and why just plainly say it halfway through the book?”  Then we learn what we learn about Richard and it got me. 

The whole story itself is very entrapping and the ending, chef’s kiss. Cynthia deserved that. 

My only wish is that we had a little more from the detective’s POV at how he ACTUALLY got to his conclusions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Kidnapping, Body shaming, Violence, Mental illness, and Abandonment

sare1125's review

dark tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Infidelity

beautyinherbooks's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Violence

kshurtz13's review

dark fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Vomit, and Kidnapping

asteinke's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child abuse, and Kidnapping

Minor: Murder, Death, Bullying, Blood, Death of parent, and Panic attacks/disorders

simplyinthemoment's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-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

3.5

Lots of twists and turns. Just when I thought I knew who the mastermind was behind the “kidnapping” the reader was led in a different direction. It was a dark & sinister storyline but written in a way where the reader wants to know the outcome. One part of the storyline could have been eliminated and it still would have been a successful & suspenseful book.  Which leads to the second point, the ending was less than satisfactory. If the before mentioned wasn’t included then the ending would not have been necessary leading to a better conclusion to the story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Gaslighting