Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Tenant by Freida McFadden

26 reviews

ginat2's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood

mk_30's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Moderate: Violence, Vomit

Minor: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

rach267's review against another edition

3.75

dark funny mysterious 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Alcohol, Classism

bookishmillennial's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

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I guessed what was going on from the beginning, but I still finished this in one night so what does that say about me? Lol. Also, in this economy does stuff like this really matter? “The first day at the temp job goes as well as it possibly could. I mean, considering my job is basically to do filing and data entry for people who are five years younger than me.” (70) Maybe I’m biased because I’m unemployed but an income is an income my man, like who cares???? Maybe Frieda is trying to illustrate how prideful and egotistical cis men are in our society but booohooooo, I didn’t feel sorry for him that he was able to find another job and pay his bills lol. Plus five years younger than you? That’s barely a difference.

So there’s just a bunch of little things with the way that Frieda writes (like the above) that bug me, but overall, I found this story predictable, derivative (even of like, her other work too. Fine, plagiarize yourself but sheesh!). I imagine Blake sitting around with his future buddies saying, “women, amirite?” 🥲 Women are *allowed* to be the villains, but in today’s red-pill-filled-zeitgeist, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at the idea of the scorned woman over infidelity. Sure, it CAN be devastating but omfg, women today are tiiiiiiiiiired. I also think painting people as psychopaths or sociopaths is just so overdone in thrillers idk!!!!

Anyway, who cares because I clearly keep reading Frieda’s books hahahahahahahahaha

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

joleneu's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

karinreadsalot's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Gore, Suicide

hxlleann's review against another edition

3.0

tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol

k8lynn's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

raggedpoet's review against another edition

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Awful… a struggle… I always say never again with Frieda McFadden books and I stuck to it for a while but was persuaded to read The Crash. The latter was definitely better than any off her previous books, although still pretty bad, so in a weak moment I gave this one a go. No more… nope, I mean it this time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

layaleigh05's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging funny informative mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting