Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

8 reviews

anna_333's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

Entire series chefs kiss. Desperate need of more which is feeling dreamy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Grief, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Animal death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Violence, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Torture, and Suicide

sarahwpotter's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.75

this book did not make a lot of sense but I literally don't care I loved it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

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

tiana_king's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

It was disappointing how much about the cult was left up to the imagination. I really loved this book until the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Self harm

Minor: Infidelity

lucyford's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

As always, I really enjoyed this book. It’s probably my second favorite out of the whole series, and definitely was the hardest to wrap my head around, but I loved it nonetheless. Jennifer Lynn Barnes perfectly wrapped up the series in this book, and I loved seeing everything gradually get resolved, and questions get answered, particularly about Cassie and Lia’s lives (plus Michael was extra unhinged). Overall, I’m so glad I read this series and I couldn’t have asked for a better final book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Confinement, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Self harm, Infidelity, and Rape

namenotimportant's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Wow. I don't have words for this, except for wow. 
I think this was my favourite book out of the four. The profiling, the process, the emotions?! I did not expect the plot twist(s) in the end. 

I loved that Lorelai came back, I was scared that she wouldn't.

All of the Naturals, Briggs, Sterling, Judd, they all grew on me. I felt like in this book I learnt a lot about Sloane.
Overall, this was incredibly intense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Grief, Emotional abuse, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Rape, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Gun violence and Self harm

gladduck'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

My only problem with this book is that it feels like there are TOO MANY revelations. Like

how did TA Geoff make it into serial killer cult lineup?

. Complaints aside, the twists did make it interesting just that it seemed like the author was trying so hard to keep us on our toes that it caused me to actually not even care anymore whenever shocking things happened. WARNING. YOU WILL SOB

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Confinement, Grief, Violence, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Gore, Rape, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, 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