Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Toutes les nuances de la nuit by Chris Whitaker

31 reviews

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

bookscatcoffee's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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This was a really immersive, enjoyable read!  It was long and required me to take it in small bites, which I enjoyed.  There are hard truths in this book, but the writing is wonderful and the characters are fully realized.  Definitely worth reading!  5 stars

Mystery

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

aprilb_reads's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I liked it overall but it was very long winded.  We could have shortened the middle.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

courtneyer's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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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I’ll be thinking about Saint and Patch for a long time. The pacing in this book was a bit uneven The beginning felt like a heart pounding thriller, then it mellowed into a slow literary mystery, and ended with another burst of intensity that kept me turning pages until late at night. I found the amount of grief and tragedy to be overwhelming at a few points—this is one I would probably save for when you’re in a good place mentally and/or plan for a palate cleanser after. I’ll be indulging in a rom-com next for sure. Despite some of its flaws, I found the characters super compelling, and the ending with all of its reveals was beyond satisfying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Alcohol

Moderate: Torture, Abortion, Death of parent

kerriski's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

camp_redwood's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I have intense and mixed feelings about this. 

Did I like it? No. 
Was it well executed? Yes. 

TLDR: “The Lovely Bones” if it was a very southern feeling coming of age novel- except of his whole ass life- and the story of navigating purpose and relationships with wild CPTSD.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy

barrucci's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional 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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This book is so original and I loved the ending, I would recommend having time to get into it. If you are a read before bed kind of reader like me, it took too long to get into and I would forget characters and where they were and was it present day or past. It didn’t help to be on my kindle so I couldn’t easily flip back. That said, I loved that the plot included an artist and art, and there were some good twists. about halfway through ai got into it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Torture, Murder

paigebooks's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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If you loved A Little Life, by Yanagihara, you will like this book. I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder

memusings's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder

This is not for the HSP reader. For all the content warnings and they are legion, this is such a well told story that weaves so many threads and brings them to a fulfilling conclusion.

jenbean's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy