Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Never Lie by Freida McFadden

40 reviews

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

ashleyj_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder, Grief, and Death

Minor: Stalking, Death of parent, and Car accident

alyssams884'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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Stalking, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Toxic relationship

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

katiebesty'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

3.25

Interesting plot with lots of twists and turns. You think you’ve figured it out from the beginning but turns out there are more twists. 
The plot is good but the characters are not likeable at all and the writing style is a little cringe. 
Overall a quick and easy read that is engaging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, Stalking, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual violence, Alcohol, Gore, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Ableism

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

phantomgecko's review against another edition

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

4.0

Not impressed with the writing. But the plot was aight. 

I had my doubts going in though. And I remained dubious through most of the beginning as well.

Specifically, I assumed EJ was Ethan, and I was afraid that would be the "big twist" at the end. That her husband was an abusive narcissist. So it's nice that I was wrong about that.

Books with domestic abuse are a little frustrating to read because I'm always like, girl run! But this was alright. Though I found the portrayal of the relationship unrealistic for the given timeline. If you've known someone a year, you should definitely know some of the things she said she didn't. idk, if you suck at communicating anything ever at all, maybe it makes sense.

Alas, poor, Luke.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Murder

skulls3713's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Fast read and was very good. I enjoyed the development of the characters and the twist and turns. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, Mental illness, Murder, Alcoholism, Death, Pregnancy, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Torture, Gore, and Death of parent