Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

No Exit by Taylor Adams

29 reviews

amyspag's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

2.5

I couldnt put this book down but I also didn't like it, its complicated. Firstly I'm not a fan of the repeated use of the racial slur often used against Chinese people, even acknowledging that its a slur doesn't mean you have to repeatedly use it no matter the context. There is also use of the n word, while it's used by someone who is obviously an awful person it just never sits right with me when a white author put those words in their book when they can maybe use other offensive terms to show the type of person they are without using painful and harmful slurs.
 

The tension was definitely what kept me reading this book but it was undermined by the writing of the villains. They felt like home alone burglers to me the whole time and it cut the tension. The constant use of 'baby brother' was so annoying but not as annoying as the last 100 pages. The repetition of 'Darby is safe.. He's followed us.. Darby is safe... There is Ashley' was too much. And that epilogue

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Trafficking

annabulkowski's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Car accident, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Terminal illness, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Cancer, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Gore, Confinement, Alcoholism, Torture, Sexual harassment, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

cepbreed's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Wow. It takes a lot for me to be so committed to a book on a school night. I started it to help me fall asleep, but suddenly its 2 am and I'm sitting here, book closed, in pure shock. I wasn't amazed by the book in the beginning. It seemed standard and I was able to catch one of the twists right away but after that I was completely lost. My brain was tossed in every direction following this plot and my stomach turned with every moment of suspense. Every single character is a dumbass but goddamn if being a stubborn dumbass doesn't help you succeed.

Song:

• Triggered - Chase Atlantic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, and Terminal illness

Minor: Medical content

emeraldelephant's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Car accident, Confinement, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Vomit, Racism, Death of parent, Dementia, Child abuse, and Ableism

kc1234's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

mollitorm's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Rape, Racism, Pedophilia, Grief, and Car accident

manicpixl's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

I was really hoping to like this book, after I heard it mentioned positively so many times, and I generally enjoy isolation thrillers.
Unfortunately, this one didn't do it for me. 
At first it was a quick read, so I wanted to finished it, and I did, but it started to drag sometime after the half-way point and I found myself skim reading some passages.

• I found the plot beats entirely predictable and not even well executed.
• During the whole book I failed to get a grip on the spacial and temporal descriptions. At least once per scene I was completely disoriented as to where everyone and everything was or how they moved around. I had no concept of the distances since sometimes a movement was described in such details that it took pages, and I thought it must have taken minutes, when it seem the author wanted to convey seconds. I found myself wondering: Is this urgent? Is this slow? Are the sixty seconds mentioned over yet? Are they far from each other? I never knew. (I'm not a native English speaker, so take this with a grain of salt, but I've almost exclusively read English novels for the last 20 years, and this is not a problem that I usually encounter.)
• The characters are clichéd, stereotypical and two dimensional. Unfortunately, don't have anything else to say about them.
• The point of view seemed inconsistent to me: Most of the time it was clearly third person limited, but sometimes, especially in Darby's perspective, as the main character, facts were used she couldn't know or things described she couldn't possible see
• When the point of view shifted, which was so rare that it always felt jarring, the writing style didn't shift with it, so the other characters third person limited sounded just as Darby, which for me was even more jarring (this can be considered nit-picky, but the fact that this took me out of the story this noticibly, to me speaks for itself)
• I might have respected the book a little bit more if it had had the guts to actually kill off Darcy in the end, instead of the very transparent fake-out in the last chapter

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Torture

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Vomit

prejudice against people who speak with a stutter, prejudice against people with developmental disability,

Death of a parent

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Trafficking

mostlyliterate's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Misogyny, Stalking, Terminal illness, and Torture

Minor: Ableism, Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, and Vomit

i’m sorry but why did ashley kiss his brother on the mouth and then it was never addressed again at all

rx9's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, and Trafficking