Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

9 reviews

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

anniepatt's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Toxic friendship, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Medical trauma, Stalking, Animal death, Vomit, and Gaslighting

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

What I liked:

• Good voice acting in the audiobook and multiple actors 
• How tense and how face paced the book was
• The dialogue between the characters
• Book structure, jumping back and forth through time and all the different characters perspectives
• The two story-lines and how they interwined
• The author was really good at making the reader feel the fear the characters were
• Casual LGBTQ inclusion

What I didn't like

• The characters felt a bit underdeveloped. So some of the decisions they made didn't really seem to make sense
• The logic of the book unfortunately starts to fall apart a bit for me about 3/4 of the way through the book. Like characters do things that don't really make sense/ we don't know them well enough to justify the odd decisions they make

But you know what, I enjoyed most of the ride. This would have been an easy five stars for me if just a bit more attention was paid to logic/ character development so their decisions felt logical within the context of the story. I am someone who gets caught up in details of things and really gets annoyed by things not making sense in the context so what bothered me might not bother you, or maybe it will bother you even more haha. 

Spoilers : 

74% -  Why would their respective partners leave two drunk ladies at the bar with no plan for them to get home? Also just weird for couples in their thirties to leave their partner behind at a bar, even if they're with a friend, this seems like a very immature thing to do, especially when they didn't plan how the two were going to get home. 

Why are these grown ass women drunk driving? Again seems like an extremely juvenile/ immature thing to do. These ladies are presented as middle class/ upper class people who are not dumb. So they have the money for a cab and the common sense to take one. Do cabs/ Ubers not exist in this universe? I really think they would've called their partners or an Uber/ cab. 

76% - The hit and hide the body. Why was the runner even in the middle of the road? Why didn't they see her? Earlier we were told that the runner was wearing running clothes. This is where the lack of character development makes things seem illogical. I just feel like we haven't seen anything from Meredith up until this point to indicate that she is such a pushover that she could literally get peer-presured into covering up a murder? I know it says she's in shock, I know she's drunk. But she literally knows who they hit. It says they're near a neig borhood. Girl if leaving the victim is unfathomable, wtf is hiding the body. RUN TO THE HOUSES???? I also feel like we didn't get to know Bea well enough to understand why she would rather risk covering up a murder than just phoning the police and risking a drunk driving manslaughter charge??? I feel like we also didn't see enough of Bea and Meridith's friendship to understand why Meredith would go along with her plan.

91% - Makes absolutely ZERO sense why Meredith would TELL BEA THAT SHE'S GOING TO TURN HER IN AND CONFRONT HER ONE ON ONE!!! the earlier illogical stuff could be forgiven but this makes no sense. Meridith at this point, literally knows Bea is capable of, if not murder, at least hiding a body, and framing an innocent person. Once again, maybe if we knew the characters a bit better/ knew their friendship a bit better this could have made a bit more sense. Especially why would Meredith would confront Bea if her child was at home. Like girl LIE to Bea! Phone the cops silly.

95% - Ok this part also makes zero sense. I really thought Bea was going to make Meredith take the knife and stab herself. Forensically this makes absolutely no sense. Self inflicted wounds look different than attack wounds!!!!  She presses her palms against the wounds?? Like what. Like angles and shit man. This makes absolutely no sense. And don't hotels have videocameras ? Like what.  Also she bonked her on the head with a Hammer LOL, like a self-inflicted hammer blow to the head lol 
99% - copy-cat killer part is kinda weird? I feel saying this was just to justify why Carly looked so similar to Delilah. But it says they wanted attention and got none .. so why would they just keep Carly in the basement forever if they wanted attention. Also the Bea and the Garage part. Like I feel like Bea could've just said no to the police search. This part felt a bit forced. Feel like a bit of a tweak would've made it more realistic. Like Kate checking it out after being weirded out as to why Bea wouldn't let the cops in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Animal death, Pregnancy, Suicide, Torture, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Confinement, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Bullying, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Minor: Homophobia, Excrement, Rape, Animal death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

traumatic birth scene leading to baby developing birth defect, traumatic pap smear, doctor performing medical procedure without consent

wackly93's review

dark emotional sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Grief, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Violence, Kidnapping, Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Physical abuse

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Stalking, Car accident, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Body horror, Gaslighting, Gore, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Abandonment, Miscarriage, Infidelity, and Abortion

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Vomit, Alcoholism, Excrement, and Animal death

laurenzott's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Kidnapping

Moderate: Pregnancy and Animal death

hayleyvharrington's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Car accident, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Abortion, Bullying, Stalking, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

literary__mary's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

3.25

This book had lots of elements of a standard thriller and did a great job of building suspense. I wanted to keep reading just to see what would happen. The story unfolds through multiple POVs, switching between present and past tense. I found that some of the POVs were pretty underdeveloped, as well as a few of the characters or relationships between characters. I also found some of the plot twists or major reveals a little disappointing. Although I didn't see some of them coming, some of them just literally didn't make sense based on the person's character or didn't fit logically in the plot, which really irked me. This is the main reason I can't give it a higher rating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse and Car accident

Minor: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Animal death

The medical trauma/SA portion comes into play through a male gynecologist character who mistreats a lot of his patients. A lot of the scenes with him in them made me super uncomfy, and I'm not sure how necessary to the plot they are.

tinytrashqueen's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Self harm

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Vomit, Excrement, Stalking, and Suicide