Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

193 reviews

harthara13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Blood, and Murder

soleilnigro's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

peanutgallerist's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Murder

asterozea's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, and Murder

lanaaa21's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Child death

phantomgecko's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.5

If your family was murdered, would you want to know all the details? Impossible to know without being in the situation but...I feel like I would want to know. That Libby only sort of knows what happened vis a vis the case, the trial, the controversy, is wild, but I get it. 

Solid plot, solid characterization, solid novel. 

A tragic look into what getting involved with the wrong crowd can do to a teenager. I didn't really like the Satanic panic angle in the story, but it was implemented well enough. And like, obvs Ben was responsible for his actions, but his "friends" sucked so bad.

This novel had a lot of facets to make you think. The strands of plot worked into a nice braid by the end of it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

abigailrosalynn's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

aharv9's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I liked this book— dark, heavy themes. Read CWs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

camkayy's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

2.5

One of those books where the characters are all kind of awful people and you despise them the entire book but the plot is interesting enough that you have to keep reading to figure out exactly what happened. I liked the way it's set up to shift back and forth between timelines of past and present day. Not a bad read but I also feel like it could've had a better ending or at least a tiny bit more drama throughout.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Blood, and Murder

lexa's review against another edition

dark mysterious

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Minor: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit