Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Toutes les nuances de la nuit by Chris Whitaker

61 reviews

headinthepages's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

ksilvio's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

wellreadsyd's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was a haunting, deeply emotional character study with mystery, suspense, and some jaw-dropping twists. The story spans decades, giving it this almost historical fiction feel, but I was completely wrapped in from the first page. It’s such a unique and heartbreaking look at how kidnapped victims move through life after surviving something so traumatic. The characters are incredibly flawed, but in the most believable way. I still found myself rooting for them every step of the way. I felt just about every emotion reading this. My only complaint was some parts were long winded and dragged on, but the short chapters helped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

lbris2484's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

kshertz's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This is a dark one. It’s hard to read about kids being kidnapped and abused. It’s hard to see them try to move on and live their lives after. It’s an amazing thriller mystery too. It’s just very very heavy. Lots of twists and turns. It was hard for me to deal with the jumping around of characters and time but eventually you fall into it and then you can’t put it down. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

lr205's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

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Early on I thought this would be a 4 star book, but by the end I would have given it a million stars. There is quite a lot of vulgarity which I could have done without, and it is often unnecessarily flowery with the language, but the story more than makes up for these. This is a looooong book, but so worth it. So many twists and turns and yet every surprise feels fully earned. The author leaves little details that seem like nothing but when the surprise happens, you wonder how you didn’t see it. A beautiful, mysterious, crime, coming of age, love story, thriller - genre defying novel about a pirate and a beekeeper. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

heidiorpz's review against another edition

4.5

dark funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol

katies_bibliotherapy's review against another edition

3.0

dark 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: Yes

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Another case where I feel like I read a different book than everyone else. The third star is for me for finishing this. 🤪

This book has no business being as long as it is. Although I love short chapters, this is a case where I would've preferred slightly longer chapters if it meant the book could be condensed. I felt like the plot was so strung out that I found myself not caring but also waiting and hoping it would get better. There were also too many characters and too many moving parts and I was honestly lost more often than not. I tried reading this physically and when I couldn't get into it I switched to the audiobook, which only has one narrator. This book would've benefitted from multiple narrators.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Gun violence, Suicide, Kidnapping, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder

shaunacarlyn's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Abortion, Murder

kizzy's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury