Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

64 reviews

avaa_reads's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Stalking, Torture, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Rape, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Child death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mental illness, Rape, Suicide, Abandonment, Animal death, Car accident, Child abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Alcohol, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Murder, Animal cruelty, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Pregnancy

maddie_0930's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Torture, Child death, and Stalking

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Cursing, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Grief, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Murder

msriverareads92's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Torture, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Murder

katerinamckenna's review

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Stalking, Child death, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual violence, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Pregnancy, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

ramblingreader65's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Low four star

Likes: love the pacing and love that it's set in Britain. It reads like a great bbc mystery. The twists were good but predictable. The ending was good! 

Dislikes: the main character who you're supposed to love, I didn't. She was supposed to be the victim but I didn't think she was. The antagonist was flat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual violence, Death, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Stalking

kimveach's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.5

Good, creepy thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

teeclecticreads's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

This was a 2.5 star read for me personally. I had so many qualms with this book:

• It was easy to figure out the mystery behind Ellie’s disappearance. I even have a sticky note that I put in the book just to go back to it and prove myself right. Though I must say, the finer details did have me feeling very uncomfortable and kinda sick to my stomach. That’s superb writing right there, because some people in this world are actually that sick and twisted.

• Why was American English being used in a book set in the United Kingdom?? That was such a pet peeve for me as someone who uses British English. If they’re in England, it should be ‘humour’ not ‘humor’.

• Most of the characters were extremely annoying to me. Laurel constantly shat on Hanna and kept comparing her to what Ellie was, Poppy didn’t feel like an accurate description of a 9 year old to me. Her language and behaviour felt quite mature. Painting Floyd as this story of ‘doing it to protect my daughter’ guy then with the suicide thing was so not cool. He doesn’t get to be felt sorry for. What he did was creepy and wrong. Then Hanna getting with and marrying her dead sister’s ex was really just kinda gross to me

• I hate ending. I really do
it doesn’t make sense that the letter was written by Ellie if she wasn’t allowed to leave the cellar at any point. How would she have been able to do that? That’s a huge hole in the plot line

I just overall was not a fan of this. Disappointed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Kidnapping, Death, Murder, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Child abuse, Torture, Stalking, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Infertility, Grief, and Emotional abuse

skysbooknook's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pregnancy, Murder, Stalking, Kidnapping, Torture, and Sexual assault

read_with_loren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

Predictable and terrifying in the sense that I’m sure people like Noel probably exist and that makes me see the world as a little worse than I previously did

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, and Rape