Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

4 reviews

meebs9's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Vomit, Self harm, and Child death

m0rdred_the_fallen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

If the ever author ever makes a sequel, I sincerely hope it's about

their son

burning them alive and recording their dying screams of agony for a ringtone, because both Nick and Amy deserved a painful death, but Amy primarily.

Not gonna lie,

Amy

had me fool for the first third of the book, I felt truly sorry for both of them, I mean talk about tragic. But then the second third began and I understood that they truly deserve each other because of how they each feed the other worst side;

Nick is codependent child with daddy issues and Amy is a narcisist with mommy issues that still has beef with a fictional alterego and her seven unborn older sisters. Honestly, neither of them is fit to be a parent.

Go was always the voice of reason and Nick should have been fully honest from the start with her and heed her advice.

Also good ridance to the Elliots, those two should've never been parents and their seven unborn daughters dodged quite the bullet of having such passive-agressive a**hole of parents who wanted a robot, not a child. The irony of them being child psychologists who wrote those awful Amazing Amy books, which I bet my life did more harm than they ever did good to a whole generation.

This is also the only point I concede to Amy, her parents not only built an empire on her back, but also inmortalized every little dissapointment and failure so that she could never forget them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Self harm, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Physical abuse, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide

cubon's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

who would’ve thought, the lawyer and his mother were my favourite characters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Stalking, Blood, Miscarriage, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Murder, Physical abuse, and Vomit

dinahn's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infertility, Infidelity, Violence, Sexual violence, and Rape

Minor: Abortion, Vomit, Violence, Stalking, and Pregnancy