Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

11 reviews

evoorde's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent

sofiam19's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Police brutality, and Gun violence

Minor: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Car accident, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Racism, and Suicide

simply_fran's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, Suicide, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Drug use, Stalking, and Violence

cake_cats_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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: Emotional abuse, Drug use, War, Murder, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Racism, Suicide, and Grief

kimveach's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.25

Another outstanding Inspector Armand Gamache book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Grief, Gun violence, War, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Outing, Self harm, Death, Suicide attempt, and Violence

atamano's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent, Car accident, and Suicide

Minor: Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, and War

marlene112358's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Emotional abuse

Minor: Racism

laurenleigh's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

5.0

I think this has been one of my favorites from the Inspector Gamache series! As always, Penny uses the murder mystery container to explore the human condition in such a gentle, eye-opening manner. The topic of this book was about power and those who abuse it. The group dynamics of students and how they can be molded by teachers (for good or bad) was thought provoking. The ending felt quite surprising to me. Though you should know I’m normally pretty bad at guessing the murderer! But I often don’t even stop to try; I like to just follow the story as an observer, rather than play detective myself. Definitely want to give a gun violence warning on this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Bullying, Gore, Blood, and Murder

katymaryreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Inspector Gamache has come out of retirement to become the head of the Surete Academy and to clear up the corruption there. Though his way of doing it seems odd to many, and he faces opposition, not least from the older students.
In the middle of all this, a professor is murdered, and Gamache's new job becomes mixed up with his old one as head of homicide. Only this time, he's a suspect as well as an investigator.
And, of course, Three Pines is mixed up in it too. There's a mysterious old map - maybe the only one in existence that actually shows the village - and it may or may not be relevant to the crime.
Some interesting new characters, as well as the well-loved ones from Three Pines, several intertwined stories (how does she do it without it seeming bitty and all over the place?) and some wonderful backstory for Gamache and for Three Pines too. Wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, and Homophobia

maplegreen's review against another edition

mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, and Emotional abuse