Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

574 reviews

brisha's review

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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definitely predictable but i still really enjoyed the read. i really enjoyed the format of this book and the different povs.  i like that the main character was flawed but we were still rooting for her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent

loveroflibros's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Kidnapping

allejaid100's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Kidnapping

Moderate: Suicide, Murder

aas's review

4.25

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment

asiamd's review

2.75

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-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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So the beginning was really slow for me and I didn’t really start liking it until part 2. I don’t really know if I liked the changing pov’s mostly because I felt they gave too much of the mystery away and the changes were really sudden, and didn’t add a lot to the story for me. I also think I understand what the author was trying to do by giving a false sense of closure with the first mystery being solved but throughout the book it just felt extremely easy to figure everything out and I felt like the ending was kinda mid. One thing that I did enjoy was the depth of the MC and the emotions that she conveys through the book especially with her children and her husband. Overall I would give this a 4/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Abandonment

teeclecticreads's review

2.0

dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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

kurumipanda's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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: Child abuse, Confinement, Kidnapping, Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault

bex4dayz's review

3.5

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexual assault

ivanaestaba's review against another edition

4.0

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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good thriller, the writing was amazing, some of the twists were predictable but interesting nonetheless.

reading from ellie's pov was so sad, i was so perturbed how she died. that's one of my nightmares so reading this at 3m was not a good a idea 👍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Stalking

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy

clara_017's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I think I’m obsessed with Lisa Jewells books. This is the third book written by her that I’ve read. 

I give this book 4.75 Stars. It was an amazing story. Somewhat bizarre but brilliant. The characters are beautifully described and the book is so well written, I couldn’t stop reading. The only reason I didn’t give this book 5 stars is that some parts of the plot where predictable, but I didn’t mind because there where still a lot of unpredictable twists and I didn’t expect the ending at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Stalking

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Suicide, Terminal illness, Murder, Pregnancy