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

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mister_dad's review against another edition

3.75
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
There was something about this that I just didn’t like but I can’t quite put it into words. It was very bingeable. I read it in just a few days and I’m a slow ready so that’s pretty fast for me. I think this could’ve been maybe 40-50 pages shorter and basically been the same exact story. A quick, pretty fun read though. 
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coury's review against another edition

5.0
dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
Once again, a Freida book I devoured like it was my last meal. Definitely check trigger warnings before you read this one, but I found it an enjoyable psychological thriller nonetheless! 

Just when I thought I’ve solved every nook and cranny of a Freida plot, she comes out with twists that leave me shocked and (pleasantly) surprised. You never know who has good intentions until the very end and I definitely didn’t see the reveal of circumstances surrounding the prologue to happen as it did. Freida is iconic in her ability to grab my attention from the very first sentence, especially when it’s in one of her prologues. This story reminds me a bit of “Misery” by Stephen King, only less horror-esque.
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alyssawhite97's review against another edition

4.25
dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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rgenschorck's review against another edition

3.5
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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faithemt's review against another edition

5.0
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
HIGHLY recommend!!!  
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alexakirby's review against another edition

1.75
not my thing but a fun, quick read. I feel it reads as more of a first draft a lot of editing needed to happen and didn’t. also extremely predictable. “Little tuna” and the baby voice were so incredibly annoying and hearing tuna over and over annoyed me. 
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acn168's review against another edition

3.75
dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
Characters had me wanting to punch them through the screen
Rollercoaster of assumptions
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jsteinke's review against another edition

2.0
dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
Inconsistent narrative with the plot that didn't make much sense. "The incident" wasn't as juicy as they made it out. 
Twist at the end was nice. 
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amberledeuce's review against another edition

1.5
slow-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
If you are dealing with infertility, stay about from this book. I should have read the trigger warnings before selecting for book club and it was unbearable.
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thegreatnoodles's review against another edition

3.5
dark mysterious 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
Overall I enjoyed this book, but the start (and the epilogue) I didn’t particularly like. At the start, before anything bad has even happened, the author keeps trying to fake you out with scary scenes that never eventuate. In universe, our protagonist has every right to be paranoid (given what’s happened to her before the story starts + being pregnant), but it felt cheap and honestly quite silly at times. Every single character our protagonist sees she immediately fears the worst of and devoted two-to-three paragraphs catastrophising about.

The larger middle of the story (Parts II through to IV) are where the story shines better, although I am annoyed we still live in an age where mental health and infertility are vilified for easy horror story villains. Someone suffering from mental health is FAR more likely to hurt themselves than others, and the handling of sensitive topics (
suicide
) in this story falls very short of being respectful.

However, I found it refreshing to see multi-POVs used for a horror, even if a lot of the story hinges on misunderstandings that could have been resolved if people actually spoke to one another. The characters’ actions felt consistent, except for Tegan’s boot.

The twists were either too obvious, or the hints were done really well and I got them all. Hard to tell how much I was meant to be shocked by.
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