Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

5 reviews

underscoresyd's review against another edition

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? No

5.0

I will protect you from all things evil Sloane 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Rape, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Torture, Blood, Child abuse, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Mental illness

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Self harm and Drug use

shiana's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I love Criminal Minds and this gave me the same feeling of tense and mystery! I want more books in this series so bad!!!!! Just more cases and more for the characters to solve. The characters felt so real and even though they are wicked smart and doing things they should definitely not be doing as a teenagers, they still had the stubborness and such that teens have. This book is perfect if you love cozy mystery but with more plot, and higher stakes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Murder

ong's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I pride myself in being able to predict where things are going in shows, movies, books. This book literally had me in the first half, thinking I’d guessed where it was going. But holy shit. NOTHING could’ve prepared me for that ending.

The best part of this series is how it keeps me guessing & on my toes. And the fact that the teens sounds like real human beings, not way too exaggerated, if a little fucked up. Very 3 dimensional characters. The plot flows real well too. Definitely one of my fav series now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death of parent

Moderate: Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Self harm, Drug abuse, Grief, Torture, Violence, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape, Child abuse, Child death, and Pregnancy

annacolb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence

Minor: Medical content, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Torture

jillkaarlela's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

I am absolutely and utterly shocked. Jennifer Lynn Barnes has me absolutely shocked. My jaw has dropped and I’ve had to pause reading so many times because I cannot comprehend how Barnes thought of this, and connected it so well. The way that the other books with seemingly unrelated topics/cases all tie together is absolutely brilliant. I was 100% addicted to this whole series. I want so badly for there to be more of these books. These books were such good ya suspense/thriller books, I highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Murder, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Death

Minor: Rape, Self harm, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

I would say this is more for older teens, at LEAST 13+ if not higher. It is suspense/thriller and deals with murder and serial killers, so not for the faint of heart