Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

21 reviews

latasharm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

This is the type of thriller that I live for. The one that sneaks up on you in ways other than the ones that you are expecting. I was pretty close guessing where this story was going to go but never could I have ever guessed the way that we got there or the precise ending. Kate Alice Marshall has a gift and a curse. She goes dark and it gets deep. This one left me absolutely gutted. I would love to see this book play out as a limited series on Netflix or Prime. The right cast could do wonders with the characters penned and circumstances paged here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Medical content

macyforthun's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

deshanejt's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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

3.5

Somewhat convoluted, but still very good! It definitely had you guessing. Perfect who-dunnit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, and Gun violence

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Self harm

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Sexism, Addiction, Pregnancy, and Drug use

mandareads222's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Blood, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pedophilia, Medical content, Gun violence, Grief, and Adult/minor relationship

babyfacedoldsoul's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was amazing. It filled the Yellowjackets sized hole in my heart. I was able to figure out one of the twists almost immediately and suspected another one. I kept page flags in this book of different theories and I loved it dearly. Extremely well written. I will have to check out other books by this author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Child death, Addiction, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Suicide, Gun violence, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Abandonment, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Classism, Death of parent, and Medical content

Minor: Stalking, Gaslighting, Cancer, and Child abuse

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Gun violence, Murder, Stalking, Child death, Grief, Violence, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, and Bullying

hannahcstocks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Murder, Stalking, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide attempt, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Cancer and Death of parent

meeklovestoread's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

I've seen this book all over bookstagram with rave reviews on how good and twisty it was and it was plumped with a lot of my favorite thrillers so best believe I was excited when I finally got my hands on it. Well, sadly this book fell flat for me.

It took until we got pasted the first 100 pages for me to actually get excited about what was going on. 

aka Noami they found that Liv died and now she's trying to pick up where Liv left off 

After that, that's when I think the story actually picked up. And I was pretty interested. I was finally seeing what people were talking about, but that feeling was later shot (no pun intended considering what happens 😂) the last 50-ish pages. 

The twist that it had been Liv that stabbed Naomi was very underwhelming and quite frankly made me upset. I thought we were past stigmatizing mentally ill people as violent psychotic potential killers. I'm glad the author later corrected this assumption.

 

I also, guess many of the twists. 

I wasn't surprised when we found out that Ethan was AJ and that Cass was involved in the end, and that she manipulated Liv into stabbing Noami and then took it upon herself to finish the job. I do have to admit I didn't guess that Cody would be involved and that he accidentally killed Jessi.

This usually isn't a factor in how I rated books. I don't really care if a thriller is predictable as long as I'm having a good time and the suspense is good, however, due to how much this thriller was hyped I was expecting the twists to be mind-blowing so I was highly disappointed which made for a not-so-good reading experience in the end. Lowkey felt like the author added these twists for the sake of their being a big twist. I just don't think it correlated with the story well. I also felt like the ending was a bit rushed.

Now, I didn't hate this book by any means. It has a lot of entertaining components and a decent amount of suspense to make you want to know more. However, if you read this I don't want you to go in expecting anything crazy or phenomenal. I feel like if you're looking for a basic thriller with a decent amount of suspense and a not-so-crazy plot twist then you may consider giving the book a try. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Rape, Alcohol, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Toxic relationship, Violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Cancer, Child abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

chasingpages1's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Violence, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Murder, Suicide attempt, Grief, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Addiction, Biphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Stalking