Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Teddy by Jason Rekulak

110 reviews

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This was so good, I couldn’t put it down. There were so many things that happened that I did not expect in the least. It was a wild ride, especially the last 100 pages or so. This book goes to show that you never know the lengths someone will go to protect their own interests and cover up their own lies and deceit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Deadnaming, Drug use, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Stalking, Torture, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Outing

izypup's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Drug use, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual assault, Death, Kidnapping, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gun violence

Minor: Murder, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cursing, Violence, Dysphoria, Infidelity, and Infertility

scarlett_f's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Murder, Toxic relationship, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, and Violence

missbeetle's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Addiction, Murder, Toxic relationship, Blood, Drug abuse, and Infertility

kst's review against another edition

dark mysterious

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

I really enjoyed this book up until the big twist. I’d love to recommend the book to others, but the ending,

in the vein of the film Sleepaway Camp (1983)

, was just a bizarre and offensive choice for a book that was written/published in the 2020s. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, Transphobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Infertility, and Grief

lexkazokas's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death of parent, Violence, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Murder, Addiction, and Death

Moderate: Body horror and Blood

aas's review against another edition

challenging 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Car accident, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, and Infidelity

noragoudie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.25

An average thriller. There seems to be a lot of strange rhetoric disguised within this book's pages, and beyond that the plot itself left much to be desired. The illustrations were an interesting idea, but could have been utilized better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug use, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction

ktame001's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

Minor: Fatphobia

voidcrawler's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

0.5

littered with right wing propaganda, primarily in the form of transphobia. sprinkle in some casual fatphobia, racism, and religious bigotry, and you have this book.

i’m now convinced booktok, especially the horror side of it, either don’t read the books they promote or they severely lack reading comprehension skills. everyone’s more obsessed with how “wOw fUcKed uP!!! 🥴” something is in terms of gore and jump-scares over the actual problematic shit in this book. bonkers, really, since so many horrortok creators are left-leaning and lgbtq+.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia