Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

A Influencer by Ellery Lloyd

5 reviews

danaslitlist's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.0

What was the point of this book? Honestly,  what was the point of that ending? Because if this was supposed to be a critique on social media and the dangers of mommy bloggers why the hell would the author attempt to make us sympathize after everything we witnessed? Is that a commentary on how bad guys win? If so even that failed spectacularly.

I’m so mad that I wasted my time but even more mad that this has the bones of a great story but absolutely fumbled everything else 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Self harm, Child death, Kidnapping, Stalking, Infertility, Grief, Abortion, and Mental illness

trhines23's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Abortion, Blood, Body shaming, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Excrement, Grief, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

han936's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Abortion

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, and Drug use

Minor: Excrement, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

cactuscloudsreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

1.0

I hated it. I hated the characters. I hated the ending. The ending felt rushed and I literally had to keep flipping back to see if I had missed a page because very important details were not clear. As a mother who just chose to delete a social account with 55,000 plus followers I had hoped to read this book with some solidarity. Instead, I found myself reliving PTSD moments of motherhood NOT related to social media at all. I powered through it because at that point I was hoping for a happy ending. Was it worth it? I don’t know. Overall, the characters were basically horrible human beings, written to be exactly that, but it was the twists at the end that literally turned my stomach and left me wondering if I would be having PTSD nightmares. On BOTM this had a trigger warning of child abuse, but I wish it had a trigger warning about how graphic the descriptions were. I would not have read it at all if I had been warned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Stalking, Self harm, Child abuse, and Confinement

Minor: Abortion and Infertility

katiereadsthings's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicide