sarahshock's reviews
18 reviews

The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.5

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Northwoods by Amy Pease

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Kinda boring. Not mysterious really. Lame ending. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Alcohol, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Murder, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Violence, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, and Torture

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

Amazing book! Highly recommend. The ending is insane!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Child abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Body horror, Excrement, Genocide, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Dysphoria, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Torture, and Violence

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

She did an amazing job telling HER story, allowing us to finally see the horror she was subjected to. She's so strong. And the whole time you're reading it, it reads exactly as she speaks. It's a great book. Highly recommend. 

The Teacher by Freida McFadden

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Such a good book, I wish the ending would have had a more detailed end. But overall a really great suspense. My first book by Freida McFadden, and I'm hooked. 

You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

It was a super slow beginning but with a decent ending the last 50 pages or so.