Reviews with content warning for Violence - Hunted

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twinkle_flavored's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Loveable characters? No

4.0

Omgooorsh what a ride! Such a departure from the other D.C. I have read. This unfolds like a found footage documentary, and you get multiple character perspectives. This not only leaves you with bated breath at the end of most chapters come mid-book, but it makes for a truly fun (and at times super gross) read. I have been dipping my toes in the horror genre, and I found this very beginner friendly.

While I would have liked more character depth, there was enough to keep you either seething or rooting for someone. She wrote Todd all too well…I’ve known this man, and it just gave me the shivers each time we were on his chapters!

While definitely not cozy horror, it’s a casual fun horror, and I would definitely recommend it!

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appleslicesllc's review

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adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I wasn’t sure what to think of this book. It started off slow and I put it down several times before trying again. But about halfway through it got much more interesting with a lot of twists and turns! And the ending was much better than the start.

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funkyartmuffins's review

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dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I picked this book up second hand for a couple bucks and I'm sure glad I did! I'm going to look for more books by this author now. It was a really fast read for me and I enjoyed it immensely! It was creepy and exciting.

I only had a couple of small issues like:

Why didn't they look at the negatives? How large were these spools of string? I feel like you need a whole craft store full of string to put as much up as they did.

But it was really fun to read and those are all minor complaints! Can't wait to find more books by this author!

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raysofsunshine's review

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adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Okay this book was so good. Wow!! Darcy Coates is a good writer. When you discover who the killer is and Carla piecing everything together. Again so good, loved it so much. It kept me at the edge of my seat.

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omair's review

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dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

1.75

Hunted delivers in bunches what it promises, but does it do so at the cost of having the depth to be truly memorable?

Hunted is an easy read, with short chapters that change scenes at a frantic pace. Mixed with the extremely generic world - more on this in a moment - everything feels foggy or blurry. If this is by design, as I'm choosing to believe to credit author Darcy Coates, then it meets the mood at every turn of the page. If you don't believe this to be intentional, well, then the cracks in the story will likely prove to be too great.

From the first paragraphs, Hunted really imparts a vision of a horror B-movie, something made to be straight to streaming. The character and story tropes are laid on thick

and you realize there's a twist coming that you're not given enough clues to solve with certainty... well, unless you know the tropes already

One of our main POVs

is a group of post-teenagers that truly had me thinking of a knock-off Scooby-Doo quartet, just Shaggy replaced with a stereotypical jock. It doesn't help that they literally get in a van that clinched the Mystery Machine feel to me.

And with that, the mystery is afoot... except that it's not really a mystery at all. Pay just a bit of attention, and you quickly

begin to expect a masked villain at play.

Coates keeps the shrouded sense of it all pretty well though, and the story is never so dull that you're tempted to put it down and walk away.

But what it does lack is anything to really draw you in, to get lost amidst the details or to feel transported into its world. Nothing feels particularly vibrant or lived in. Frankly, I found myself questioning when and where the story takes place. It may as well be set in an alternate USA where they did adopt the metric system and Zuckerberg's rise stalled well into the 2010's.

In the end, I did not hate reading it, nor did I particularly enjoy it, but - most telling for me - I'm not even sure I'll remember having done so a month from now. As such, it's hard for me to recommend this to others, but maybe it'll be a guilty pleasure read for you. I finished it over the course of two nights, so could be worth for anyone wanting to sneak in a title while waiting for a hold on something else.

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ksamaine95's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

First Horror read. Not quite 5 stars only because I’m a horror film fanatic and this didn’t quite match up to my expectations. But 10/10 would recommend to get into horror. Excited to read more

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alderson3839's review

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adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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claude_'s review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

An incredibly well written book with a gripping and entangling story, full of loveable and complex characters, as well as ethical questions that linger long after finishing. It was hard to put this book down at any point.

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