Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

66 reviews

tiana_king's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Racism, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Dementia

jade_0222's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction

books_with_haley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

kshertz's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

It’s definitely an excellent thriller. I was really hoping for a different ending but at least it wasn’t completely predictable. I had some difficulty with their language around trans people and Progressive people. But I do think it was a really interesting story and I do think that the way it was told kept me on the edge of my seat. I think people who are Christian will enjoy this book a lot more than anyone else but it’s definitely a book I enjoyed reading.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

kacylynne's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Kidnapping

daniellekraatz's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, and Injury/Injury detail

talsbooknook's review against another edition

This is a poorly written book full of right wing dog whistles, religious propaganda and transphobia. Absolute nonsense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Misogyny, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

leebeeloves's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

I absolutely loved this book! It was an incredible thriller and I didn’t see the plot twists coming!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

This had potential, and I was really genuinely enjoying it until about the last 100 pages or so. There's really not much I can say about what I didn't like about this book with this review remaining spoiler free, but I'll try to be as cryptic as possible. It really guts me that this was a 5 star prediction lol

First though, I do want to bring up its merits, because I think that it has some.

Things I liked: It's set in a small town based on a real town that not only is near to where I live but that I've been to several times and it mentions several landmarks that are familiar to me. I also liked the illustration elements and how they get spookier and spookier as the book goes on.

Things I didn't like: Pretty much everything else but especially the big plot twist at the end. Absolutely the stupidest thing in the world. Made half of the book absolutely pointless. This could've been edited down to just 200 pages and it would've been better and not as much of a waste of time.

I only add the half a star because I have a soft spot for the small town that the book is based on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Excrement, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Minor: Rape