Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Night Shift by Alex Finlay

11 reviews

jessthemess8112's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

I really enjoyed this book, but the ending was a bit anticlimactic. The author spent this whole book building and building to this big whodunit mystery, and the big reveal left a lot to be desired and a lot of unanswered questions.  Whatever happened to Mr. Nirvana, and why was he even mentioned except to throw you off? Did anything happen to Arpeggio and the other cop for leaving a major detail out of a report? Did Chris get any compensation for the fact that his brother was wrongly accused for 15 years? And of course, how did Steadman convince straight and narrow religious freaked family Katie to even get involved in the first place?  I rounded up to 3 stars because I enjoyed the mystery, but the unanswered questions kind of ruined it for me.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Violence, Murder, Death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

ransomrayne's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Murder and Physical abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

vj_thompson's review against another edition

challenging 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

4.0

Wow, wow, wow. The ENDING!!!

The Night Shift is probably up there in being one of my favorite thrills. I didn’t see the ending coming at all. I did get one of the plot twists. I liked that two of the three characters had flaws that they were processing through while the whole story was playing out.

The ending was the Epilogue was the sweetest thing 💕 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pregnancy, Stalking, Cursing, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, Abortion, Bullying, Classism, and Eating disorder

eyedoc's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Pregnancy, Blood, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Minor: Abandonment and Kidnapping

boiler_bookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, and Abandonment

Loved this one!!

bre88's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Classism, Death of parent, Bullying, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicide

maregred's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Child abuse, Blood, Alcohol, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

random19379's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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? It's complicated

2.0

<a little boring and horrible ending, had a cool concept though, could have been done better>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Abandonment, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, and Violence

Minor: Abortion

bookishgoob's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Honestly, this book wasn’t terrible but it also wasn’t great. I don’t like reading thrillers written by men. They feature a lot of dead women and that makes my stomach upset. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Death, Abandonment, Cursing, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, and Drug use

arireadsitall's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment and Murder