Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

280 reviews

mmadill227's review

4.5

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Abortion

sidneypbooks's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Grief

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy

adeline's review

3.75

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder

Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy

cdoubet's review against another edition

3.5

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent

meluelmil's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Really, really enjoyed this book. It was hard to put down, but I also kept stopping to write my thoughts and theories so I could look back on them and see if I was on the right track. I LOVE that the story was well concluded and the loose ends were all tied. AND IT ALL MADE SENSE! There were lots of surprises and scenes that made me gasp out loud without a lazy explanation (read: “it was mental illness” or “it was all a dream” or “it was all a coincidence”). Great story, great execution, great epilogue!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicide, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Infertility, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Abandonment

kimberlywilson's review

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I need to process everything I've read before giving an actual review. So many emotions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Kidnapping, Stalking

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy

nikkijeanreads's review

3.25

sad tense slow-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

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I wanted to like this more. The setting and the characters had so much potential, but I just felt that they both fell a little flat. I felt like

for Ellie to be treated so cruelly, and to die such a tragic death, the retelling of her experience didnt trigger any emotions for me (I cry too much when reading, so I know im not emotionless haha!). The narration spoke of both Laurel and Ellies sorrow, but I didn't feel it.

I couldn't form a connection with the characters. Perhaps it was the pacing (I found it very slow, a slow burn suspense essentially), or maybe if the author had omitted Ellies initial 1st person POV near the beginning

when she encountered Noelle,

it would have been a different experience? Perhaps this little bit of info essentially made it predictable for me?

I will say that, when all is said and done, I didn't have to force myself to finish. I still enjoyed reading this book, I just don't think it hit any extraordinary notes to have me overly excited about it when I finished. I would read another of these authors' books to see if I can connect more next time around.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Suicide, Murder

delaney_friend's review

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Kidnapping, Murder

bek_p87's review

5.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I'm not an extensive reader of the thriller genre, so I wasn't sure what I'd be getting with this book. Maybe because I'm a relative newcomer, I didn't guess the "big shocking thing" until it was on top of me, right there on the page (or in my ear, as it were - I read this as an audiobook), and it WAS shocking. I guessed a few of the further twists and turns, and I thoroughly enjoyed the ending - I think sometimes in these sorts of books, once the mystery is finally, fully revealed, the author doesn't know how to bring it to a close, but that wasn't the case here. I'll definitely seek out more Lisa Jewell!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide, Violence

allisonmaier's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide