Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Toutes les nuances de la nuit by Chris Whitaker

31 reviews

edhyndman's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury

missmakaela's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective tense slow-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

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy

imfixintoread's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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An incredible read -- one I'll be thinking about for quite some time. It's a bit of a slow burn, though it does pick up during the last 200 pages. It's dark, repeatedly breaks your heart, and has so many plots. A love story, serial killer, prison escape, lifelong friendship, just to name a few of the plots throughout. It's a must-read. It's brilliant and will be one that I talk about and recommend for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Death of parent

Minor: Incest

fanchera's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Abandonment

tayreads10's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I laughed, cried and spanned from 1975-2001 with Saint and Patch. Twists and turns, love, hope, grief and so much more that you just have to read to understand the impact the characters will have on you.  Beautiful and heart filled!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

foxmulders's review against another edition

4.5

dark reflective 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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gorgeous book w engaging plot. this is almost a five star for me but i felt the author holds some disdain for women that have abortions due to

not only the treatment of tooms but of saints ending where she had the baby all along

. the christian undertones came in at weird times and were jarring to me. lost a half star for that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Abortion, Death of parent

booksbri's review against another edition

4.5

challenging 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Stalking

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Abortion, Death of parent

Minor: Incest, Sexual assault

kimveach's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really wanted to like this book, but it was slow and overwhelmingly sad.  It's a story about hope, but all the trauma and tragedy was too much for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

ladybug12793's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This had so much potential to be at five star read, but it was overly drawn out over decades. Not the typical mystery thriller. 300 pages could have been omitted easily. The writing itself was beautiful and heartbreaking but a lot of it was unnecessary. I literally read 18 books in between finishing this book because I kept having to set it down because I got so bored. I almost DNF’ed too many times to count

This is by far SLOWWWW paced FYI.

Also, saint deserves sooo much better. Disappointing. Didn’t even end how I hoped. And Patch and Grace didn’t even end up together. It’s super unrealistic that the doctor stayed in prison for 20 years and allowed himself to almost be put to death for a crime he didn’t even commit because of HIPAA that doesn’t even come into account since the patient was dead. Also there’s mandatory reporting for rape, especially statutory rape as healthcare workers. Moronic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cancer, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Grief, Abortion, Murder

Slow paced

marylove's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder