Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

No Exit by Taylor Adams

46 reviews

peyviz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

This book was insanely tense from beginning to end with so much packed into it. About 25% of the way through I had no idea how I still had so much left to read because so much had already happened. So many heavy gut-punches.

The ending, when you think Darby is dead but then she isn't?? ONE LAST GUT PUNCH, Wow I had to re-read the last page because I was so caught off-guard

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Ableism, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Bullying, Cancer, and Trafficking

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

haleybre's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Vomit, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Animal death, Trafficking, Car accident, Death, Murder, Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Blood, Cancer, Confinement, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

angstyweeaboo's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Gun violence, Cancer, Death, Gore, Sexism, Terminal illness, Body horror, Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Confinement, Death of parent, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Dementia, Rape, and Pedophilia

melliedm's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

An absolute page-turner that, despite its flaws, never fails to keep up the tension. Felt like exactly what I needed, super fast-paced to the point I finished it in one sitting.

I’ve seen the movie before, and even though I knew most of the twists, the text was still very worthwhile. Lots of background and perspective shifts that a movie simply can’t portray, and the movie also changes the main character into an addict, which impacts the plot thoroughly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Car accident, Ableism, Torture, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Rape, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

sydoodle's review against another edition

hopeful sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This was pretty sick. Awesome suspense, read it all in one sitting. Only qualm is that there was no reason for this white man to write several racial and derogatory slurs - we can tell the bad guy is bad from the murder and stuff, you don't need the unnecessary and unimportant to the plot language.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Torture, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Death, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, and Body horror

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Trafficking, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts

tonyaf's review

dark tense fast-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? No

3.5

A true page-turner! This is so tense and almost impossible to put down once the plot gets going (and it gets going very quickly). The villain in this is truly despicable and reading some of the things he says and does is so uncomfortable at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Kidnapping, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Animal cruelty and Vomit

michelle_my_belle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

This was a very fast paced, action packed thriller. It leaned a little too far into horror for my tastes and contained a lot of graphic violence. I will say, it was a very compelling story and I continued reading wanting to find out what happened, so it was definitely successful in drawing me in and building suspense. Overall, it just wasn’t really for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Torture, Animal cruelty, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Ableism, Death, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Trafficking, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Cancer

michaelawatkins's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Torture, Murder, Death, Gun violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Chronic illness

Minor: Addiction, Death of parent, and Alcohol

chris_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Trafficking, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Gore, Torture, Blood, and Ableism

Minor: Death of parent, Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, and Terminal illness

aniwillow's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual violence, Blood, Gun violence, Confinement, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness, Excrement, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Grief, and Animal cruelty