Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna

6 reviews

carlotta25's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Death of parent

megscorner's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

I liked the ending, but I was not really a big fan of the buildup to the ending. It felt like a different person wrote the ending and the beginning. And I really wished the writing would have been consistent throughout the book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

samsearle's review

dark tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

madelimet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Pedophilia

Moderate: Sexual violence and Trafficking

ogokoo's review

mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

This book started off great but the writing and characterizations got noticeably obnoxious towards the end, just unnecessarily convoluted and self important. The mystery and procedural were very intriguing and unpredictable. I'll keep reading, but I have complaints.

The romance between Alice and Cap was so BIZARRE! So unnecessary! And Cap's constant urge to smell women was creepy and weird.... I want to see more of them as a duo but not romantically. That was WEIRD!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Child death

hkburke2's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

Compelling audiobook, and I liked the female lead character. Definitely dark, and ended up feeling kind of like a long law and order story? Parts of that comparison are good and some not. 

<Spoiler>I did appreciate that the mom's drug use did not turn into a whole "blame the victim" plot, I thought that was handled well (if not realistically?). Still not sure how I feel about how much race was brought up but not dealt with in this book/town.</Spoiler> 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Death of parent