Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

547 reviews

leeann_bartee's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

tasnimtanisha's review against another edition

dark fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, and Toxic relationship

chsm8's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Abortion, Lesbophobia, and Pandemic/Epidemic

eazybreezy92's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

Josie and Alix are birthday twins and who seemingly live very different lives. Alix interviews Josie for her podcast about women who are about to make major changes to their lives. As Josie begins to share the story of her life, things get more twisted and Josie’s motives for being on the podcast become questionable and dark.

A quick paced, psychological thriller. Definitely a page turner. I liked how it was set up in podcast style with the Netflix interludes while being told from two perspectives. That style of writing could get messy and confusing but the author pulled it off.

Slight spoiler: why I couldn’t give it a 4 star is the end seemed like it tried to justify a 40+ year old man being with a 16 year old. That part was weird and I didn’t like that when there was a moment to address it, there was basically sympathy for this male character? Gross. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

alissa_lopez's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

Fast paced, modern concept book — centers on a podcast and feels somewhat commercial for my taste. Characters were interesting, but the book was somewhat predictable, unfortunately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

uz_kostlivec's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Stalking

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Pedophilia

dhanon's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse and Confinement

Minor: Violence

ellic23's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

itscarleesmith's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Murder

avalon's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Me the first 95% of the book: okay that was pretty predictable

Me the final 5%: oh. Maybe i should have listened to the title

Seriously though the ending was pretty strong in my opinion, though it can be considered a sort of copout for any plotholes I still enjoyed it. Was it a perfect mystery? Not by any means. Was it fun? Absolutely!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent