Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

6 reviews

fkshg8465's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Much better than You. Best parts for me were Forty’s monologues. Too many holes, though, to bump up to a four.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Alcohol, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Car accident, Grief, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Torture, Abandonment, Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Confinement, Violence, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

3.5

As always, Joe is fucking batshit. I like that there are deviations from the show in the book — it helps keep it interesting. Also interesting is Joe’s reasoning/logic skill. I am fascinated yet terrified by his brain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Vomit, Violence, Terminal illness, Stalking, Sexism, Murder, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Confinement, Abandonment, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Blood, Suicide, Sexual content, Mental illness, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Death, and Classism

theimposter's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Confinement, and Death

Minor: Abandonment and Addiction

ellaticonstellation's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Hidden Bodies was sick, both in a good and bad way. Caroline, damn! You created something so believable I got scared. Haha! Character-wise, Joe had a funny and loud mind that I liked a lot. He was savage, and I loved it! He was also so problematic that it made me sad because of his shitty childhood. Joseph Goldberg was a waving red flag that attracted another red flag named Love. The irony! The murders were unforgivable for apparent reasons. I was not too fond of the fact that he thought people's lives were in his hands. (When he decided not to kill certain characters, as if they needed to thank him for not killing them) It was disturbing and disgusting. But overall, the story was compelling and fast-paced. 😎

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Infidelity, Murder, Racism, and Stalking

a_alves00's review against another edition

dark tense 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Cancer, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Murder, Police brutality, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pregnancy, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

anne311's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

I love this book it was genuinly so much fun to spend time reading it... it's so weird (in a good way) that the very basic premise and events are like in the netflix show and the characters are absolutely in character, but also i never knew where anything was going to go. there are so many divergences ever since book 1 and they are like HUGE things that make it impossible to go the same route as the show. but also it kind of ends up at the same points here and there and it's so weird i love it and i love this writing style so much especially. the informality of it, like using a ton of "and"s to conmect multiple sentences in a grammatically incorrect way really does flow so well, joes mind is racing and this style absolutely encapsulates it. like 5 times on the last couple pages i thought ok this is the end of this book, but it kept going, this book always keeps escalating, i love my time spent with this series and look forward to when i find the time to read book 3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Incest