Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

34 reviews

ssarahbbeth's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Sexual content, Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Animal death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion

ashleymg99's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Holy. Shit. The ending. Everyone says the last 20 pages are crazy and my god, are they right. The payoff is insane. 

I literally got to the last few chapters and I went “ah I know where this is going”. No the fuck you don’t. You think you do, but you absolutely do not. 

All I can say is this book is crazy - between 2 unreliable narrators, time jumps, and secrets, it leaves you guessing until the end. The twist is unexpected in the best way, because it takes everything you thought you knew and turns it on its head. The ending bumps my star rating from like a 3 to a 3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Death, Alcohol, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, and Body shaming

oliviaslibrary's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

the ending of this book really threw me, the final twist is pretty fucked up so I knocked a star off. It changed the way I saw the entire story and I don’t know if it was for the better. Still enjoyed the mystery.

edit: actually the ending twist makes me really mad and I’ve ranted about it to all of my friends… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Addiction and Suicide

Minor: Murder

meeeg's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Murder, and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion

zianna_reads's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Animal cruelty

brookey8888's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.25

Honestly this was entertaining but it was also kind of boring at the same time. Nothing thrilling really happened so I kept wondering like what was gonna happen and what was the point. But the ending I did not see coming at all and I was shocked. I don’t know if I necessarily like it but I didn’t see it coming so there’s that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Abortion, Murder, and Stalking

anne311's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

man

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Violence, Suicide, Addiction, Alcohol, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming and Body horror

Minor: Abortion

lilysaddler's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Cursing

Moderate: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Death, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Addiction, Death of parent, Abortion, Body shaming, and Alcoholism

Minor: Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

This book had me up until 3/4 of the way. The ending did make me go wtf but not in a pleasing way. It’s too long and slow for me to have been pysched for the ending(I actually felt relieved that it was done.) Louise annoyed me and of course none of them are reliable so believing any of them is  far fetched. I recommend the audio if you want to get through this at a faster pace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

marieeh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

Really wanted to give this a higher rating because I was really enjoying it until about maybe 3/4 through, but the ending and the very final "twist" just weren't it for me.  

I had kind of suspected something like what happened might be going on kind of mid-way through, but I was thinking

that David and Rob had switched bodies

  Not that I had any idea what that really meant for the story, it was just something that came to mind.  I had no idea of who really had done it.

All of the

out of body experience

kind of took me out of the story.  It pushed everything over into the realm of sci-fi/fantasy just enough that I wasn't super into it.  I know that some people can lucid dream, but it takes a lot of work to get good at it, and the

out of body stuff

was an even bigger reach.

Very disappointed in the ending

I was not happy to see the antagonist not only come out on top but also kill our protagonist?? I know suspense/thriller types don't always have a true "happy" ending but this was just too much for me.  After everything Louise had gone through, it was just very disappointing and unsatisfying, and I hate that it was all kind of up in the air about what will happen to her child and family.   Also I don't know exactly what it was but there was just something mildly homophobic about Rob being in love with David and thinking the only solution was to steal a woman's (Adele) body to be with him.  I mean clearly Rob ended up having some issues but they were just never hinted at or investigated enough for me to believe that he would immediately think that what he did was the only solution.

I don't really know what I was expecting out of the book.  It was a fine middle of the road story with an awful ending.  I read it because I wasn't sure I wanted to watch the show of it on Netflix.  Probably will not now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Toxic relationship, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Abortion and Death