Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

6 reviews

karly_ackley's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Miscarriage

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Child abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Car accident, Vomit, Death, and Gun violence

horizonous's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

3.25

A decent enough mystery / thriller set in a small town with a lot of secrets and things left unsaid. I think this won't be my last book by Megan Miranda.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Violence

◦ Terminal illness = Dementia

mghrt06's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Child abuse

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Death, Blood, Suicide, Stalking, Murder, Grief, Infidelity, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Dementia, and Child abuse

suneaters's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Corinne's disappearance has left a large impact on her hometown. Corinne's boyfriend Jackson, her friend Nic, brother Danial, and Nic's boyfriend Tyler are all involved, but not all secrets can stay buried. Nic is the only one that ends up leaving the town while the others stay behind. She comes back to help her ailing father. Then, the girl Tyler is dating (Annaleise) goes missing. The story is told backwards to reveal the truth of that night Corinne went missing and what is currently happening in the town.

When Corinne went missing, Annaleise was the one that gave the group an alibi. She has been blackmailing Patrick and now tries to do the same to Nic, thinking Nic has money because of Everett (her rich fiancee). One of the pictures Annaleise took shows a body on the porch and she thinks it is Corinne. What happened was Nic hit Corinne with a car. Her father, in trying to make up for his bad parenting, buried the body under the garage. Annaleise ends up calling Daniel's wife Laura to implicate the family in Corinne's death, but Laura ends up killing her to save the life she has after being brought to the brink. Nic figures out what Laura did and warns her brother Daniel to get rid of the gun. Daniel gets rid of Corinne's body. Nic says she doesn't know about the body when Daniel and Tyler find it, but Nic mentions her ability to get Tyler to do what she wants. With this and the way she mention taking the dare and Corinne's surprise, we wonder if the "accident" was on purpose. Nic saw a dare in Corinne's eyes to keep driving when she was on the side of the road as a hitchhiker just like how Corinne had dared Nic to ride on the outside of a ferris wheel. Nic has been trying to make sure her father doesn't talk to the police and that's really why she came back, so he won't sell the house with the body in it or tell the police what happened to "that girl". At some point, Nic's fiancee shows up to help, but Nic keeps having to lie to him and he begins to realize Nic isn't the girl he thought she was. Nic realizes she has to stay in Cooley Ridge to keep an eye on everyone who knows what happened to Corinne all those years ago. She breaks up with him, gives Tyler an alibi, and ends up pregnant with his child and living with her father in Tyler's house. In the end, she is trapped in Cooley Ridge even though she tried so hard to escape. Generally, a depressing story of female friendship twisted into something awful and a group of people trapped together by their own lies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, and Murder

Minor: Chronic illness and Physical abuse

maddy_24's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Minor: Child abuse, Death of parent, Suicide, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, and Physical abuse