Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

13 reviews

flucas77's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Stalking, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Murder

Minor: Physical abuse and Sexual harassment

ericaburns1's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Kept me reading until the middle where it really kicked in. I couldn’t help myself but try to anticipate what was going to happen, but I didn’t until it was basically happening. I like the POV switches and short chapters. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Medical trauma

Minor: Suicide

astareads's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.5

An interesting, different kind of thriller where a murder isn't in the forefront and women are  in the lead. There was abuse, but not a single rape happened! Quality content, imho.

I kept trying to guess what is going to happen, which is a good sign. I listen to audiobooks while crafting or cleaning, and often the plots don't really get me that interested, but this one got me good.

There were some parts that felt like maybe the authors made a mistake, but with an audiobook it's hard to tell cause I can't go back to double check. The ending was a bit abrupt and felt like they couldn't actually quite figure out how to end the story so they made the villain crumble in an uncharacteristic way, while trying to shoehorn in the reasoning behind it. The main character stayed true to herself, however. She was flawed, but portrayed in a way that made me root for her.

The study of morale was interesting, but felt a bit stretched in parts. The question of whether the punishment should always fit the crime was made a sort of a central point, but felt really vague in context of the story, like it was an idea that the authors wanted to hang onto despite the story itself steering away from it.

I really enjoyed the alternating POVs and their separate readers, it made it easier for me to keep track of what's happening, and I think the readers did a great job.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Mental illness, Stalking, and Suicide

abbs15norm's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Stalking, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

keijiwolf's review

dark mysterious tense

• 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, and Suicide

faythfarrar's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

trycerabel's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Suicide, Vomit, and Child death

lilacsophie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Stalking, Sexual assault, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Car accident, Blood, and Mental illness

Minor: Bullying

therapist sleeps with someone who was a patient - had one session together

sallytiffany's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

A very griping story that definitely kept your attention. I liked the multiple perspectives that this story showed. It was fascinating story and character development. I couldn't relate to the characters much and I wasn't sure I loved the ending but the quality of writing and suspense kept it at four stars for me. Definitely one I would recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

creativeworld's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Toxic relationship