Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Never Lie by Freida McFadden

31 reviews

luna_98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

the plot twist WENT CRAZY omg 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Gaslighting, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Stalking and Confinement

swimmer120x's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

The book bounces between two characters, Tricia and Adrienne. It seemed like a medium-fast paced book. It wasn’t my favorite, but it wasn’t terrible either. I enjoyed the plot twist

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Vomit

eviethebookworm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

If you like Alice Feeney’s books, you’ll love this author! This particular novel reminds me of Rock, Paper, Scissors! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Blood, and Confinement

Minor: Pregnancy and Alcoholism

samantha914's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture, Genocide, Medical content, Stalking, Confinement, Gore, and Pregnancy

goldsbuc's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Mental illness, and Confinement

Minor: Sexual harassment, Vomit, Car accident, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, Child death, and Alcohol

chelle22's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Vomit

readingwithmeredith's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Pregnancy, Death, Sexual content, Confinement, and Murder

S c mentioned in story but nothing descriptive or shown, not gory of a story but tense at times

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

The MC thinking she was a silly girl over and over was a little annoying for me. And I found it a bit repetitive. But the end popped it up a quarter-point for me. I thought the plotting was well-done, but the writing wasn't as strong. Also, how was the MC so dumb about

what you can eat as a pregnant person??

I also have a big pet peeve where a fact is in the book that I can google and it seems like the author did not. If the MC ate something at, let's say, 6 pm at the latest, (how much later than like 5 pm would a realtor be meeting for a showing?), then the food would be fully digested by about 9:30 am the next morning. She couldn't throw that up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Murder, Pregnancy, Confinement, and Mental illness

Moderate: Gaslighting and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual content and Drug abuse

dblue236's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

I thought I had this all figured out by a third of the way through it and fancied myself the smartest person alive... only to turn out to be almost entirely wrong. I'm holding on to the tiny shred of dignity I have left because I was kind of in the ballpark. This author hasn't disappointed me yet, and while her books aren't necessarily rampant with realism, I enjoy the hell out of them and always look forward to starting a new one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Mental illness, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Rape, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Torture

Minor: Car accident, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Alcohol

jessi_lou95's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Death, and Blood

Minor: Death of parent, Alcohol, Confinement, Alcoholism, Torture, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy