Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

43 reviews

grayb14's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Blood

julied's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

madhmillz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The best Riley Sager book I’ve yet to read!

Personally, the twists gave me everything I wanted and then some! Still t keeping with Sager’s overall style while breaking the mold at the same time. I hope to see more like this one in the future!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Alcoholism

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Vomit and Blood

brittneyw9's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Confinement, Self harm, and Death

shannananahey's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Riley Sager hits it out of the park again. I usually predict the “twist” or large event before I’m halfway through most books. This one came out of left field and I never saw it coming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Alcoholism, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Kidnapping

Minor: Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Physical abuse

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Death, Stalking, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, and Cursing

Moderate: Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, and Blood

mallory10100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

this was so insanely twisty i had absolutely no idea where it was going 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Drug use, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and Cursing

Minor: Blood, Infidelity, and Vomit

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

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

2.5

The stars I give this book are for the following: the creepy atmosphere, the writing that at times made me feel like I myself was on Lake Greene, the reference to "Lock Every Door," the fact that there were some pieces of this story that sent a couple of chills down my spine, and the decent pacing.

Other than that, things get a little dicey...

I wrote down in my journal around page 100 that the star rating of this book was very much going to depend on the twist(s)...and friends, I just thought that all of these twists were weak at best and goofy at worst. There was one twist that made me actually LOL and I really don't think that was Sager's intent.

When I wasn't rolling my eyes out of confusion or snort laughing at how dumb that one twist was, I was just...bored. I dunno, Riley. We'll try again next time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Stalking, Domestic abuse, Blood, Death, Murder, Alcohol, Vomit, Violence, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Abandonment, and Suicide

Minor: Colonisation, Racism, and Sexual content

sydneyj's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Murder

Moderate: Gaslighting, Gore, Emotional abuse, Grief, Blood, and Confinement

writtenbydnicole's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Child death

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Infidelity