Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

53 reviews

honeywine's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

kjm_x's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

ekmook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

house_of_hannah's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

I FUCKING GOT IT RIGHT !!! AHHHHH

This is a book that has you crafting theories from the get go. The foreshadowing and detail in the way this is written is just *chef's kiss*. I want to immediately re-read this just to see how everything connects more clearly. 

Also, EVERYTHING IS ANSWERED IN THE END ! This story does not leave you hanging. There was a point where I was thinking that I was going to rate this 4.5 stars, because of something that was not making sense, but then it was all explained so beautifully, and everything clicking into place just felt so good. I was constantly squealing, shouting, and telling my husband what was happening throughout the last 1/4 of this book. 

My one negative is that I don't feel that the character Dee Dee was actually needed. She didn't impact my enjoyment of the story at all, but I just feel she wasn't utilized much, and ended up feeling more like filler in the end. 

Overall this was a fantastic read that I will be thinking about for quite some time. I know it's only March, but this is by far my favorite read of the year. I think it will be hard to top this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Torture, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

cassroberts89's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

The first half was so confusing and a little slow. If you pick it up, give yourself at least until the halfway point! The confusion serves a propose, and it’s brilliant. Uncomfortable, but brilliant. I’m not always a fan of books you have to go in blind with, but this was worth it. My feelings throughout the book bounced back and forth from heartbreaking to shocking to infuriating to beautiful. There was absolutely no “figuring it out.” If you think you figured it out, give it a couple of chapters, and then give it a few more chapters. This is not a bait and switch, quick big reveal kind of novel. This is a slow build-up, a trickling realization, a sputtering conclusion. It’s so good. Just read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Stalking

ninanesseth's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Stalking

blklagoon's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

tati_jurisic's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Stalking, and Gaslighting

whatathymeitwas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

I'm going to be honest, by the time I was about halfway through this, I was irritated and thought I would hate it by the end. I've maybe never had a book so suddenly change my thoughts on it as this one.

The blurb is very correct. Initially, you think you know what's going on here. Then a couple more times you maybe shift that around some and have an AH-HA! moment, and you think about the blurb, and you tell yourself oh boy they almost got me there. And that's when it changes on you again and you realize you did not in fact have a clue.

It was the second or third little shift that made me think I'd hate this. I had a terrible feeling it was going in a direction that was shocking for the sake of being shocking, and for whatever reason it made me angry. I'm not sure why, because this book is very well written, well fleshed out, with really lifelike characters for the most part. I guess maybe that was the issue, I couldn't reconcile why in the middle of all that, suddenly it would be taking a hard left turn into shock territory somewhat unnecessarily.

I'm happy to say that didn't happen, and I was shook by the time I realized what was really going on and how things linked together, in ways I was completely misled from considering. Color me surprised.

This book is so much more than I thought it was at that point, and it's completely different than what I expected at any point other than the very end. Definitely looking forward to Sundial now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

drag0nfly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail