Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering

7 reviews

kelsimarirobb's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Classism, Drug use, Infidelity, Stalking, Drug abuse, and Grief

acresofclams's review

dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Infidelity

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Cancer

brivnnv's review

dark mysterious tense slow-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

Not great,  but not bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, and Alcoholism

writtenbydnicole's review

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, and Sexual content

strickortreat's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Two things I'm not a huge fan of in thrillers: an ending where

every single character gets some type of happy ending

and an ending where the moral of the story is spoon-fed to me instead of letting me figure it out myself. This book has both of those things and definitely suffers because of it, but on the whole it was still a pretty decent read and I was interested in the story the whole way through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Bullying, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, and Emotional abuse

cblunier's review

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

As someone who knows many people with OCD, I find this book's treatment of it to be somewhat unrealistic.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

klutzykara's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Cancer and Terminal illness