Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Do You Remember by Freida McFadden

7 reviews

floatingbanana's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping

tinamae's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Terminal illness

akcronheim's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Such a great thriller that I read it in a day! So many plot twists 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting

Moderate: Infidelity, Terminal illness

Minor: Animal cruelty, Grief, Death of parent

elizabeth_25's review against another edition

3.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I liked it, but not as much as some of her others. Read in less than 24 hours and it was gripping. I did want to know what happened, so that’s good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

shyleek's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I love Frieda but this was not my favorite of her work. The book was good but the ending didn't quite pack the punch that I was used to with her. I didn't have it all figured out, it just wasn't a total shocker. 

This book is like taking Groundhogs Day and 50 First Dates and making a child who likes mind games. I absolutely loved the character Camilla and the dog, Ziggy. Finished the book in one day and have no regrets! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent, Gaslighting

Minor: Infertility

beckyremillard's review against another edition

3.5

mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Tess wakes up without memory of her life for the past seven years. Very few things are as she remembers it. She doesn’t know what’s going on and who she can trust. 

Rather than being suspenseful, I just found it frustrating that Tess kept running into the same issues each day. It gave me similar vibes as when you want to scream at the person in the horror movie not to do something because you know what’s going on when they don’t. I know it’s dramatic irony, but I didn’t love it in this case. 

The book was written fairly well, but not my favorite by this author. There wasn’t really anything that was unexpected or a twist to me, as I expect from thriller novels.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Car accident