Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

No Exit by Taylor Adams

6 reviews

ellisofia's review

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Torture, Body horror, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cursing, Vomit, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Grief

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Police brutality

reburkah's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.25

I found this book hard to get into and boring for a majority of it. If Darby mentioned grave rubbings one more time I was going to scream 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Trafficking

Moderate: Pedophilia and Rape

Minor: Racial slurs

bryelle's review against another edition

adventurous 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

Darby is an art student who is driving home to see her mom in the hospital with cancer. She has to stop at a rest stop due to a blizzard. She finds a child in the back of a van and must save the child from whoever put her here. 

Darby trusts all the wrong people through out the night and has to constantly change her plans. 
Ashley is the mastermind behind this operation to bring Jay to his uncle. He thinks he is super smart but keeps getting stumped by Darby. Darby and Jay have to survive the night before the cops come to help them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Torture, Police brutality, Gun violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Death of parent, Blood, Pedophilia, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Violence, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Cancer, Sexual assault, and Ableism

readinginmtl's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Body horror, Death of parent, Murder, and Physical abuse

samanthapayne013's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

3.75

Much scarier and gruesome than your average thriller. Definitely not a relaxing read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, and Torture

libraryofdoe's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-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

4.0

While snowed in at a rest stop, a woman sees a child’s handprint on a van window and upon further inspection realises there might be a child trafficker among the friendly faces trapped with her.

I really enjoyed this. While I was initially mildly upset that the twists were clunky and easy to foresee, the last fifth of the book really surprised and intrigued me and the plot was gripping.

On the whole I highly recommend, especially if you enjoy tense thrillers with relatable leads. Darby Thorne, you have my whole heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Terminal illness, Torture, and Vomit

Minor: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Rape, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Stalking