Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Toutes les nuances de la nuit by Chris Whitaker

112 reviews

paperknotbooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious 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: Child death, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Violence

colwaldo76's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion

cathyross's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Abortion, Murder

bella_sl's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is a page turner, and I was pretty rapt to the book. However, I don’t think I enjoyed it that much? I barely remember what happened in the middle of this book. And by the end I more just wanted to finish the book than find out what happened. Also, at the end the author just kept on leaving out the big reveals, which felt like a lazy way to write a cliff hanger… if the character we are reading about finds something out … tell the reader too? Instead the author would just jump to another group of characters and leave the reader confused. The language was too flowery/descriptive and I just wasn’t a fan. But if you are just looking for an easy page turner/mystery then this may be a good one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicide, Violence, Abortion, Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape

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

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

lexiegrace88's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder

jordannjoyce's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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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Content Warnings

Minor: Incest, Sexual violence, Violence, Abortion

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

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