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Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, Murder
Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Drug use, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping
Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Terminal illness, Blood, Dementia, Stalking, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol
Minor: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent
One way this does stand out from other Sager novels is the beautiful and heartbreaking depictions of grief. Multiple characters are experiencing grief in their own ways from various losses and life changes. Each was poignant
With all that said, I felt the story dragged on a little in the middle and almost lost me. This was not the case for some of Sager’s other stories.
I also could not stand the audiobook narrator. It was painful. The voices he used for certain characters, especially “bad guys” or essentially any woman character, hurt my ears. Think gravely Batman voice or shrill accented lady voices.
If I didn’t love Sager’s writing so much, this audiobook would’ve been turned off the first time the narrator switched into one of his personas. It felt like every character besides the main character had an obnoxious voice, even when it didn’t fit their character and distracted from the story.
Edited to add: I just learned who the narrator was and now I’m sad because I love him as an actor. Oops.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Car accident
Minor: Vomit
Graphic: Child death, Kidnapping
Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Dementia, Grief
Minor: Cursing
i was a little unsure about it at the beginning but it progressed pretty well. usually i find ya mystery to be kind of predictable but there were several plot twists in this that i wasn’t expecting at all!
his relationship w henry was SO sweet he’s so father.
the writing annoyed me at times (all this mc does is be shocked) but it was generally pretty strong w an interesting plot. it annoyed me a little that
Graphic: Child death
Minor: Suicide, Violence, Dementia, Car accident
I need to come back to write this review because I'm all in my feels right now....
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol
Middle of the Night had me genuinely scared at moments - heart pounding, gasping aloud, having to step away to catch my breath - and by the end just had my heart aching.
It is gripping, and the twists and turns of the plot had me shocked over and over. Granted, I never see a plot twist coming. However, there were so many twists and moments of "It must be HIM! No...it was HER! But wait! Actually it was..." that it almost got a little old. It's not that I think the book dragged, but I didn't appreciate how much the plot teased and tugged me around. It's the only reason I docked it from 5 stars. Well that, and I didn't like that there were still some loose ends to Johnny's part of the story that I would've liked to see wrapped up.
I will certainly be adding more of Sager's thrillers to my list!
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Dementia, Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Car accident
Minor: Addiction, Miscarriage, Xenophobia, Death of parent
Moderate: Child death, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief
Minor: Drug abuse