Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

6 reviews

hellokatya's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

this book really took me by surprise. the twists and turns fully got me - i did not expect any of them. really good plot, not great execution. the writing style bored me at points and felt like a chore to get through. also far too many characters to keep track of, constantly had to refer back to character log to know who was being spoken of. 
overall very good book. would recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Torture, Violence, Death, and Stalking

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Misogyny, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Car accident, Mental illness, and Vomit

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I had absolutely no idea this book was part of a series, let alone the fourth in. The writing was impeccable and it didn't feel like I was missing any back story let alone 3 entire previous books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Stalking, Alcohol, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Murder, Outing, and Police brutality

Minor: Sexual assault, Infidelity, Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Rape, Sexual violence, and Homophobia

theinkwyrm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Well I enjoyed that more than I'd anticipated. I feel like the dual perspectives kept the pacing fast and compelling and the POVs were almost equally matched as far as enjoyment. While I didn't enjoy Flynn's POV quite as much as Kane's, the courtroom drama elements helped even that up. I also appreciated that while Flynn is clearly a modern day version of the hardboiled detective, he lacks for the most part (although not completely) the misogyny that is generally typical of that trope. The only thing that you really have to suspend your disbelief for (or at least I did) was that Kane is not only a psycopathic and sociopathic serial killer but that he also has a rare disorder that means he can't feel pain (which is mentioned pretty early on), which is honestly just kind of overkill if you ask me. But I still enjoyed his POV enough that it didn't bother me enough to want to stop reading. Overall, a pretty solid thriller that you can enjoy without having read the first few books in the series.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

kristinebennett's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Murder

Minor: Outing, Rape, Death of parent, and Animal death

bookthief's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This book follows a clever serial killer in the act of murder and in trial. There’s a plot twist of the killer being on the jury, but will the infamous Eddie Flynn find him before it’s too late. This book is intense and graphical.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, and Self harm

astudyinliterature's review

adventurous dark 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

5.0

This book was recommended to me by a friend and what an amazing recommendation it was! 
The twists and turns in this book keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page! I thought I knew where it was going and it completely did a 180 in the most interesting way! 
I couldn’t stop my face from being so expressive while reading it, people were probably looking at me a bit strangely in the cafe but I don’t mind! 
This is now a firm favourite, must read more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual harassment, and Rape

The tags make it sound a bit scary but if you like thrillers, you’ll love this!