Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

False Witness by Karin Slaughter

40 reviews

corywbowers's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder, Rape, and Pedophilia

Minor: Cursing, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Pandemic/Epidemic

ryrei's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder, Sexual assault, Stalking, Drug abuse, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Drug use, Violence, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Suicide, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Cursing

Minor: Lesbophobia, Dementia, and Homophobia

caprireads215's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

4.5

Heavy trigger warnings 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Rape, Grief, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Body horror, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Self harm, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Gaslighting

uncsprinter9250's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Trigger warning:  lots of mentioning of sexual assault and substance misuse 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Murder, Misogyny, Grief, Death, Rape, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, and Alcoholism

elleyvette's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Addiction, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Gore, Child abuse, Death, and Toxic relationship

alanabie's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

2.5

I don't think this was good, I think it was just shocking? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gore, Rape, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Blood, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Violence

kosmic_owl's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Emotional abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Drug abuse

sammy121895's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

4.75

I loved this book. It kept me on the edge of my seat and I never knew what was coming next. The characters are well developed and there were no plot holes(that I noticed).  Dr Jerry is my favorite character ever written. 

Sisters Callie and Leigh have a special bond. When they were teens, they helped each other to cover up a crime. Now, as adults many years later, they are each living very different lives. Callie is a self described junkie who shoots up to cope with her pain. Leigh is a newish lawyer with a husband and teen daughter. Randomly one day, a witness neither of them had previously known saw their crime, comes out of the woodwork and begins playing head games with the sisters. He threatens to expose their crime if they don’t do what he wants. They must figure out how to keep him from exposing them while trying to get out of the terrible mess he has brought about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Rape

edithbookshelf's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Vomit, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

rowanbg's review

dark

do you ever read a book that is just deeply not your thing, but you have to lead a book club about it for work, so you drag yourself through it kinda just waiting for a legit excuse to dislike it, and then you come across a predatory bisexual character and think "ok, this works as a focus for my frustrations"?
yeah

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Stalking, Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Sexual assault, and Vomit

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism

Minor: Infidelity, Dementia, Eating disorder, and Pandemic/Epidemic