Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

136 reviews

amybartoli29's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Dementia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility, Vomit, and Abortion

sarahhtotiss's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Pregnancy

katesb's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

sarahruthsreads's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

It took about 30% of the book to get into it, 50% to feel really invested in it, and the last 75% blew me away. 
This book was incredibly violent and raw, and I don’t know how to explain the way this book made me feel other than extremely vulnerable.  Some of the secondary characters were markedly not as fleshed out as the main characters,  at times the violence was a little extreme, and the writing style took me a couple chapters to get used to. But ultimately this book was breathtaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

sasmith_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Genuinely might be my favorite read of the year so far. Does a fantastic job handling hard content. Really envelopes you emphatically. Phenomenal read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

mourbooks013's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Ending was a little predictable 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual violence, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Toxic relationship

lynssss's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Dialogue was best part of the story, flawed main character, but felt maybe her growth wasn't gotten realistically. But felt sympathy for the characters and they felt like real people even if the plot didn't. I would cautiously recommend it, but certainly not to everyone...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Rape, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Grief

nat008's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Once there were wolves had me gripped, there was tension throughout the whole book and the mystery was well done in my opinion. I loved learning how wolves help the climate and are a vital factor for reforestation. However, at some points I had the feeling there were too many different themes, too much crammed in this book. Sometimes the conversations between characters didn't feel very realistic to me, too. Plus, the ending felt a bit weird to me

; how can you continue living with you sister who killed one person, and tried to kill the father of your child??? Aggie then leaving with the horse also kind of felt like an easy way out

. Still, I enjoyed this book and would recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Abortion

a_w_m's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

pikkumarja's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.5

Luontokato on aiheena todella kiinnostava kaunokirjallisuudessa. Rakastin Viimeistä muuttolintua eikä tämä kirja peloistani huolimatta pettänyt. Itselläni ei koskaan ole ollut varsinaista "susivaihdetta", mutta kirjan kuvaukset villiinnyttämisestä, metsästä ja susista olivat upeita.

Henkilöhahmot olivat samaan aikaan rasittavia ja rakastettavia. Välillä jotkut tuntuivat vähän turhan liioitelluilta tai muutoin epäuskottavilta, mutta sitten muistin, että kirjassa on epäluotettava kertoja. Kirja oli oikeasti kiintoisa ja ihan erilainen kuin monet lukemani kirjat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Abortion