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Hidden Pictures: A Novel by Jason Rekulak

241 reviews

princess_marie's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Addiction, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Car accident, Grief, and Kidnapping

Minor: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Infidelity

imanin10's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug use, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Murder, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

niclantsov's review against another edition

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? Yes

2.75

 This book devoid of logic

The first 70%ish of this book was actually intriguing, I was so pumped on how the story goes, but everything went downhill from that. The ending feels rushed and devoid of logic. I'm disappointed, I actually looking forward liking this book, because it got me hooked on the first hundred pages. This book was also interactive with the illustrations from the character's drawing, and it was very graphic 100% gave me the fright!

There was one scene from this book that was so preposterous and it was my last straw, like you couldn't even justify it: the character thought a baby powder was a heroin, that was my 13th reasons why.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Death, Blood, and Drug use

Moderate: Trafficking and Transphobia

kapplebees's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I really enjoyed it, tore right through it. The twist actually got me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Addiction

Moderate: Drug use, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Child abuse

Minor: Infertility and Car accident

fireflyhollow's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Murder, Drug use, Addiction, Grief, Alcohol, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Infertility

kates_cupcakes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Drug use, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Addiction

kathywoo10's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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 of parent, Drug abuse, Addiction, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Stalking, Infertility, Classism, Blood, Deadnaming, Dementia, Kidnapping, Racism, and Transphobia

tanacef's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Racism, Alcohol, Addiction, Infertility, Car accident, Gaslighting, Dementia, Drug use, and Religious bigotry

nxpe's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

So, this was a strange read for me. I didn't really like the characters nor did I like the writing style, but the plot sucked me in. This is also strange for me because I don't read horror and I definitely don't read ghost stories (they freak me out way too much). But I didn't know this book was either of those until after I picked it up. 

So, there were a few things that I simply didn't enjoy about this book:

1. I didn't feel like Teddy sounded like a five-year-old. Maybe seven but not five (then again I don't speak with five-year-olds often (or ever) so...) 
2. There were undertones of transphobia which was a big yikes and made me incredibly uncomfortable.

But, the story itself kept me incredibly immersed and has been on my mind since I finished it, which is what I want from a mystery thriller (which I thought this was). I would've given this book four stars if it weren't for bullet point two.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping, Transphobia, and Drug use

savreads28's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Stalking, Drug use, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Confinement, Blood, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Racism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Violence, Dementia, Torture, Car accident, and Drug abuse