Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

110 reviews

alsnapp's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Suicide, Violence, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Vomit

sammymilfort's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Kidnapping, Vomit, Alcohol, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Toxic friendship, Ableism, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Abortion

mdal26's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Medical trauma, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Misogyny, Vomit, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Infidelity, Violence, and Medical content

brennahbrown's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Death, Child abuse, Violence, Infidelity, Car accident, Grief, Torture, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Murder

the_jamae_way's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Death, Mental illness, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Violence

nirellis's review

3.75

Conflicted feeling; the writing was atmospheric and the plot/ pace was well done, my only gripe was not caring much about the characters this was happening to, I predict this was due to there being quite a few characters stories told simultaneously so I could never quite get a grip on just one. But for the pacing and plot this worked very well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Murder, Confinement, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Violence, Death, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

christyreads_n_rambles's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is a bone chilling mystery of multiple missing people, and the deeper the dive the more connections that are mad. The characters are so easy to love and the plot line grips you keeping you engaged just to find out what happens.  I wish there was a bit more to the story the ending was a bit out there and the fact that a whole neighborhood saw/ heard nothing seems out there as well.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Domestic abuse and Child abuse

geraldine's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

2.0

the author really was like

ah yes our villain is the lesbian who wears doc martens, and whose wife wouldn't agree to let her carry a baby with a friend as the donor so she instead kidnapped a friend's baby

HELLO??? PLEASE??? also that

her wife is all "ah yes I fell in love with my historic house because it has """servant stairs""""

PLEASE?????????? 

i saw multiple people in my book club rate this 5 stars and depending on their reasoning I may finally quit for real. secret note for thestorygraph only because I have half of these women on goodreads. return soon to see if I finally do myself a kindness and quit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Child abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Car accident, and Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia

madsgirl007's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Murder, and Violence

larajoye's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Half way through the book I was suspecting everyone, that’s when you know it’s good. You have absolutely no clue how it’s going to end and you can’t put it down. I loved the different perspectives across different time lines. This book is incredibly well written and the plot is revealed in the perfect order and timing.

🚫🌶️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Car accident, Death, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Murder, Kidnapping, and Child abuse

Moderate: Vomit, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Violence