Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

24 reviews

mikaelaandherbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

When No One Is Watching has a very interesting plot filled with social justice themes around racism, gentrification, and redlining. While it is a good story, I wouldn't qualify it as a thriller overall - it is more so a story centered around drama and suspense, with the final few chapters filled with thriller qualities. It would have been nice if those thriller qualities had come in earlier into the story, as I believe the story would not have been so slow-paced with that change.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Racism

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Drug use

ehmannky's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Alyssa Cole is one of my insta-buy romance authors, so I was a little unsure of how this thriller would turn out. But it was so, so good. Everything from Sydney and Theo's chemistry to the slow unfolding of the mystery to the ways in which Cole put so much historical research into what she wrote. I also liked that Theo (and by extension any white readers) didn't have his white feelings coddled at any turn--he was called out and learned to take it. 

It's so good. The villains in this remind me so much of the Get Out villains, right down to the posturing at liberalism and progressive politics by the villains. And the twists in this book! When I tell you I gasped out loud, I am not being dramatic, I literally gasped out loud. The ending is wild, but wild in a way I liked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Grief, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Police brutality, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Sexism

kamzan's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

rosiewants2read's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

A good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Racism

Moderate: Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, and Suicide

Minor: Excrement