Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

53 reviews

lpdx's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident, Alcohol, and Drug use

bre88's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

It's a solid beach read or one for a lazy Sunday. Do not expect to be wowed by a twist in this one.  The story is about what you would expect - the characters are just interesting enough, the setting is beautiful and the pacing is at a clip that makes you feel like you should finish it. With that being said, it's a bit slow in the middle when the author attempts to build tension and mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Drug use, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Gun violence, and Infidelity

kshertz's review against another edition

dark 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? No

3.75

This was a good mysterious thriller! There’s some parts that are slightly eye rolling because people just need to talk for like 5 minutes and clear this up but otherwise, it’s a cool setting on the island. There’s a ton of twists and turns and I was interested in how it was going to end!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Sexual content, Infidelity, Bullying, Death, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

hlipman22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Death, and Violence

Minor: Drug use

oflifeandstuff's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

2.5

Kind of disappointing.. there was a lot of repetition and stuff that didn’t really make sense. I also thought it was a shame that there wasn’t a single character I wanted to root for. Robby was unnecessary and the island didn’t feel creepy until the last couple of chapters because the flashbacks were kind of random

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Car accident and Terminal illness

goodgollymissmollee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was really fun and I enjoyed it A LOT. However, the “thriller” aspect felt like an after thought tacked onto the end and I think I would have enjoyed it more without that portion. 

The book really didn’t even get rolling until there was only like 40 pages left and everything happened SO QUICKLY. Nothing was fleshed out and it felt so disjointed. Like it was an entirely different book I’d just stumbled into. 

First like 70% was 5 stars. The ending was like 1 star. So here we are at a 4.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Infidelity, Murder, Toxic friendship, Death, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment, Cannibalism, Cancer, Gun violence, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

vivboyd98's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

feathers4bookmarks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

2.75

I thought the characters were pretty  unlikable and cliche. The ideas were good but multiple storylines never resolve and the back story that was involved seemed irrelevant. There were some letters or postcards featured in the physical copy that I wish were tied in better but I’m glad they were added- apparently that was the editor’s idea so kudos to her! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Violence and Murder

Minor: Car accident

Murder mystery, thriller, fiction

sarah2438's review against another edition

3.0

Meh. Feels like a book I will forget quickly. Will probably unhaul. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Violence

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I generally don't read a lot of thrillers, but I really liked Hawkins' "The Wife Upstairs" so I gave this a shot. Overall, a really solid read. Fast-paced, the twists felt natural to the plot and the foreshadowing was well done without being super obvious, the ending felt like the only natural way it could have ended. It's got a lot of good nods towards "And Then There Were None" here without it being a retelling of that novel. A fun Christie homage. 

I will say that I'm not the world's biggest fan of how the characters keep saying "oh, it's this island that strips us down to our most base selves, etc. etc.," and I feel like there's a critique in here about white characters/people in general using Tropical(TM) using this excuse for acting out on their most base instincts. I think if you wanted to really get into that line of thought, there's a good analysis for that line of thought. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic friendship, Death, Violence, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent