Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Perfect Little Children by Sophie Hannah

11 reviews

destinyf1988's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Rape, Gun violence, and Miscarriage

iffygeneia's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Grief and Gaslighting

Minor: Rape, Miscarriage, Stalking, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

syddug's review

dark emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Miscarriage

nisquah'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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Murder, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Misogyny, Racism, and Miscarriage

galexy_brain's review

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Characters were dull. Not the author's fault, but I found the main character's "I don't get what's happening with the youth these days" attitude to be annoying to read about. The mystery was drip-fed and then answered all at once. I didn't find any of it unexpected and found the twists to be more like roadblocks delaying me from getting to the end of the story.

Lewis was so unbearable from the beginning that I couldn't understand why anyone ever thought he was good?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Child death, Death, Murder, Rape, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Ableism, Miscarriage, Grief, Islamophobia, Alcohol, Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Stalking

camilla_p's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

The book was tense throughout and kept me intrigued. each chapter seem to introduce a new possible ending, only put the true ending to circle back to original suspicions but with more depth. Though this book was tense, it was more narration and dialogue driven than it was action driven. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

auteaandtales's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

oliviajoreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder, Death, and Child death

Minor: Rape and Miscarriage

leggatkat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Ableism, Child death, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage, Abortion, Self harm, Drug use, Suicide, and Rape

elizabethchoi's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Murder, and Emotional abuse