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Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

243 reviews

ekrjordan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident

readliketay's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

abbyu220's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

jilliansreading's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, and Murder

mich3ll31221's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

direguard's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

samigilbert's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

the first half of this book is extremely intense and TRIGGERING in so many ways, but holy cow is this a rollercoaster. i want to reread this duet again. the writing was *chefs kiss* and i was HOOKED the whole time. i am so emo

please please please familiarize yourself with the TW list and remember that your mental health matters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

audreytwo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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 book, whew. Before you read anything, even the first page, CHECK THE WARNINGS, there are very graphic depictions of rape and assault in this book, among various other warnings. This book is dark, far darker than the first. The first half is more into the horror category with how graphic, traumatizing, and gruesome it is. Turning from this, the second half the book focuses more on healing from trauma and has (in my experience) a fairly good depiction of what that can be like for some. 

I devoured this book, darkness and all. 

When it came to the plot, there were some characters I was far more invested in (story wise) than others. And as with all books, there were moments I didn't care for. All in all I thoroughly enjoyed reading it through to the end. 

I honestly felt like Francesca's story was far better than Claire's. I didn't have any real drive at the end to see Claire die. I get it, she's supposed to be some big mastermind, but it just fell flat because while she might have been the one pulling strings, she didn't really physically harm Addie. She just kind of randomly showed up periodically and then vanished again so while I reveled in reading about the revenge against Fran, I just kind of went "cool, she's dead now" when Claire died. Also, I really loved Rio's note at the end, it just felt like a super cute touch and gave us some closure on if he realized what Addie had done for him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

library_of_breezy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

5.0

Definitely read the trigger warnings first, the first part of the book was difficult mentally and emotionally with topics it touched on 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

hannag4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail