Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Do No Harm by Jack Jordan

8 reviews

wal27's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Gun violence, and Violence

mve94's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Miscarriage and Child abuse

kaf_zaf's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Medical content, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Blood, and Death

Minor: Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Domestic abuse

natmorrall's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Blood, Gun violence, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Drug abuse and Child abuse

graceev's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Murder, Gore, Death, Violence, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Drug use and Drug abuse

sh543's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Medical trauma, and Medical content

molly_love's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

An amazing book, genre of book I don't normally read but it was so well put, placed and written it made me gasp, squeal and literally jump around the room especially with the plot twist at the end, I thought it would happen earlier in the book and when it didn't I just thought they were all cool,. But I was so wrong.  (It caught me so of guard). I adored every minute of this book and I cant wait to read more books just like it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Bullying, Child abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Torture, Blood, Chronic illness, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Slavery

bookellys's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Primum non nocere - First do no harm

This is one of the things doctors swear to as part of the hippocratic oath. Dr. Anna Jones is given the choice: kill a patient or we kill your son - what would you do? 

This book has taken me a while to get through, I was supposed to read it as part of a Tandem Collective readalong but then life got in the way and in all honesty, there are ZERO characters in this book that I actually liked so there was nothing really compelling me to read it as I wasn’t that bothered what happened to them.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s suspense and a few twists and turns that make the story line a bit more interesting but the three main characters whose perspectives the book is written from had no qualities that made me care about them:

• Dr. Jones - seemingly a robot devoid of most human emotions except when it comes to her son. Unnecessary addition of a hair pulling impulse
• Margot - a thief and a liar that thinks she’s better than the very people she goes to for help
• DCI Connerty - her son got kidnapped from a beach because she fell asleep and wasn’t watching him (but apparently it wasn’t her fault???)

The premise is interesting but in my opinion the ‘will she / won’t she’ that the book is marketed on was over too soon with far too much of the book then based on the underground crime world.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Murder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Drug use