Take a photo of a barcode or cover
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual assault
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism
This was more painful than I expected to listen for the domestic abuse. There aren’t many descriptions of the actual scenes of abuse, and they aren’t in great detail, but there are frequent reminders and we see in the past and present what the public dynamic is, which is so realistic and painful and frustrating and unfair and so, so sad.
So even though the content warning is accurate that there’s minimal explicit domestic violence, there’s so much surrounding it and so much of other people judging victimhood and innocence and the way that people are sort of brought up in our patriarchal society to protect men’s reputations at all women’s costs and the horrific gaslighting. It’s just really heavy even though technically there’s not much DV. I was also just so conscious the whole time about how this took place in Texas and how this would probably be a really unsafe place for a woman to be abused and ever tell law enforcement.
Thriller-wise, I thought it was well paced and was consistently intense. Mystery-wise, I would argue that this wasn’t the kind of mystery that the audience could solve until the protagonist figured it out. And the clues primarily came from recovered memories of the night in question, one scene at a time, which felt a bit overly convenient occasionally.
Graphic: Sexism, Violence
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Murder
Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Gaslighting
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse
Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Minor: Sexism, Toxic relationship
the only thing for me was the writing, it felt more like a YA book at times such as scenes with her love interest. Nothing wrong with YA books but this is not marketed as such so sometimes I felt like I was reading YA romance due to the wordings and descriptions.
I really did enjoyed the discussion on the ‘perfect victim’, very true and unfortunately always relevant.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Murder
Moderate: Sexism
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Alcohol
Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content