Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Crash by Freida McFadden: A Thriller That Will Keep You Up All Night! by Freida McFadden

66 reviews

kayjay2012's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Infertility, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Minor: Gun violence, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury

zbreakspear's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Car accident

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse

tayreads10's review against another edition

3.0

dark lighthearted mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was intriguing in the beginning, then sputtered out for the rest of it. No mind-blowing crazy Freida twists like I'm used to. It just kind of fizzled. There was definitely potential for it, but just didn't go anywhere. I waited forever and a day it seemed for my hold at the library.
The reader gets to see the situation mainly from both Tegan and Polly's perspectives. Tegan is a pregnant woman who crashes her car in the middle of the snowstorm and Polly's husband takes her to their house. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

mnaugle's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief

christie7886's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, Car accident, Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

hardcover_hazel's review against another edition

3.5

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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3.5 Stars 🌟 

A crash, a snowstorm, and a couple offering “help.”

I love Freida’s writing - she keeps you turning those pages. The chapters are always short and end on some sort of wild thought or action that makes you want to jump into the next right away.

The crash isn’t as insanely good as the Housemaid series but you’ve got to give it up to Freida for writing books faster than I can decide my next read.

I even was rooting for Polly in some chapters! I enjoyed the ending of this.

Honestly perfect for getting you out of slumps or if you need an enjoyable thriller ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

carleymorgen26's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

bookscatcoffee's review against another edition

2.0

tense slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Oof, this book was not for me.  It was repetitive, reductive, and the characters were one-dimensional.  Halfway through the book I was hoping it would turn out to be some kind of literary device, but nope, just more pages of the same.  And then the ending was so unrealistic, that if I had cared, it would have made me mad.  But I was just glad it was over.  Not worth it.  2 stars

Thriller 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Car accident, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol

secondstar05's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

livobreb99's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious sad fast-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

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Overall this read was a nice easy read to get through and it felt like it was decently fast paced but there were quite a few lulls and parts where I just wanted to shake the main character and ask her what she was doing? The writing felt so clunky and basic until the last 60-100 pages and I definitely saw the potential of this story and the idea, but I think the execution didn’t do it justice. Overall not a bad read, just not one of my favorites. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Physical abuse

Moderate: Child death, Death

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse