Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum

92 reviews

sareena's review

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

missywhidden's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

slothpaced's review against another edition

dark sad tense

got about 75% into the audiobook without knowing much about the real-life horror it was based on, believing, somehow, naively, that meg would survive in the end... i looked up the murder of sylvia likens. and i have lost even the tiniest bit of will to continue. listening to the narrator recount the story instead of reading it gives it an added sense of realism and despair, and i just don't want to hear him anymore. feel like i only now fully understand what "horror" really can be as a genre. true crime is horror; those ghost stories don't come close. this is one of, if not the, most horrible books i have ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

lightseeker's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Violence, and Excrement

kristiforkinglovesbooks's review

Not what I was expecting and it turned way too dark for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Gaslighting

felivrin's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

eelpatrickharris's review

challenging dark sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

gizley0420's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Pedophilia, Excrement, and Car accident

nat88222's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Torture, and Violence

gee_clev's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder