Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis

5 reviews

karen_pants's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

So, this may not have been the best book to read when my mental health was rough - but I'm grateful for all the TW. 

I've been looking for a book this year that would make me cry and this did. It was powerful, emotional and I was in the edge of my seat with pins and needles at points.

I didn't cry from sadness btw or anger...these were stress tears. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

blake4's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

daphnea'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is not for the faint of heart. There's mental illness and murder. McGinnis writes an empathetic portrayal of a main character, named Neeley, who has auditory hallucinations and is grieving the death of her mom and brother and the abandonment of her father. Neeley starts a summer job as a tour guide at a cave, and notices that her auditory hallucinations don't follow her underground while she's in the cave. When Neeley's crush Mila (who is also her coworker) ends up dead, she tries to figure out what happened to Mila with the help of a hallucination of a deceased local cave adventurer named Margaret.

This book is very dark, and I would not recommend this book to squeamish readers because of its detailed descriptions of suicide, torture and death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Animal death

reading_renebow's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

nicolej_2009's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol