Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

La femme de ménage by Freida McFadden

47 reviews

aharper's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Infertility, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

saraperdue01's review against another edition

challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

brittanylee0302's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book although a little slow in the first 30% was soooo good! & the slowness of the first 30% is very necessary to the outcome of the book. While I thought this book was going to be a clean cut who done it kind of thing, it was so much more intricate than that which made for a wild page turner. Can't wait to read the sequel! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Violence and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit and Toxic friendship

theinstabookworm'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

5.0

THE GOOD: THIS. BOOK. This book is so good. Holy cow. I get the hype. It gripped me from the start and didn't let go. The twists were perfect and I didn't see any of them coming. I usually don't like books with unlikable characters, and Nina and Andrew certainly were unlikable but I loved Millie. 

Listen, this book is compared to THE LAST MRS. PARRISH, and there are even claims that the stories are practically identical. However, I tried reading THE LAST MRS. PARRISH before reading this and couldn't get through it, DNFing it at around 30ish pages. I didn't know going in that Liv Constantine is the pen name of two authors, but it is very apparent in the writing. I just couldn't get through it and I think author duos are not my thing. This was a great alternative. I know I'm late to the game, but if you haven't picked this one up yet, I highly recommend! I can't wait to read more of Freida McFadden's backlist! 

THE BAD: Nina was infuriating until the last 10 chapters or so, when her motives became clear and then she became a little more bearable. 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Infertility, Rape, and Death of parent

peachmoni's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Torture, Murder, Gaslighting, and Classism

Minor: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Gore, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

samantha7815's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

mariareviews's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

loved every second of it. highkey a new favourite.
it has some aspects that could’ve been improved before publishing but meh. reading it feels like watching those old scary movies where the characters make stupid decisions and you’re just like “b-tch tf? don’t do that” and they do it anyways lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death of parent