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

145 reviews

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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hbarbb's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

solid for a quick read; i was stressed the whole time

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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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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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