Reviews tagging 'Torture'

None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney

26 reviews

matchashortcake's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Torture, Death of parent, Gore, Mental illness, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Body horror, Child death, and Murder

flip_chester's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Gun violence, Gore, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexism, Racial slurs, Medical content, Animal death, Racism, Death of parent, Rape, Animal cruelty, and Misogyny

jenmaysiereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Torture, Blood, Sexual violence, and Cannibalism

vj_thompson's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? No

3.0

Ellie Marley’s writing is beautiful. I highlighted so many lyrical moments. Shout out to the part mentioning Texas sunsets 💕 The frustrating thing that I couldn’t get over while reading is the fact that this book is rated as “young adult.” Icky. 

Please read the content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, and Sexism

Minor: Medical content and Vomit

ssummer_readss'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

SUCH a good book. ik some people don’t like it, but i personally enjoyed it a lot. finished it in three days. it had me on the edge of my seat. i love how Emma, the mc, isn’t protrayed as a helpless little girl. she’s strong and has attitude, but also is relatable and realistic. i also love cooper and bell. i really love how different the characters are. the gutmunsson twins are suuuper interesting characters. i enjoyed reading scenes with them. this is a dark book, with descriptions of awful murder scenes and trauma. so if you’re easily shaken, maybe pick up a different book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Medical content, Sexual violence, and Torture

laurenevlyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book! The characters were all very well written and the writing style is unique but easy to get used to. Emma is an amazing character and her growth was very well done. Simon is intriguing and complicated and creepy and I really hope we get more of him in book 2. Overall and amazing book with great characters and great interactions between those characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Torture, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcohol

tyler_machotka's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This book was way different from what I normally read, but I still really enjoyed it! You can tell the author took a lot of time researching and it really payed off! I will definitely be reading the second one at some point! I feel like this book is really under hyped sadly (i mean look at the cover it's gorgeous). So overall I really enjoyed it! I feel like the ending was perfect as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug use

kfanucchi's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Violence, and Death

mgirault's review against another edition

dark slow-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

3.25

This book is ok not the best but not the worst read. It is relatively gruesome and borrows a little too much from silence of the lambs in my opinion 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Murder, and Torture

cosmiccutlass's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Torture, Violence, Blood, Child death, Cannibalism, Death, Alcohol, Child abuse, Gun violence, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, and Kidnapping