Reviews tagging 'Incest'

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

20 reviews

corvus_corax's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Incest, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Medical content, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

mirificmoxie's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Classism

bethantg's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Incest, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

aileron's review

mysterious reflective medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Incest, Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

jollymama's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

2.25

There was a theme to this book that was hard to get past. I may have enjoyed it without that theme. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Suicide

There's an incestuous sibling relationship

celery's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

alidathealien's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

The beginning is pretty slow, the middle is just right, and the end moves way too fast. I had honestly forgot this was classified as a thriller until the climactic sequence was something straight out of a horror movie. The last chapter felt very "wrapped up in a bow/let's get this over with" which was a little disappointing.

I still liked it though! It made me want to get back into Latin (if only briefly). I guessed a couple of the twists, but a couple did surprise me! Kinda wish they hadn't copped out with the incest though *shrug emoji*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Incest, Sexual assault, and Violence

silkeisa's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Incest and Lesbophobia

fluffy1st's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Car accident and Death of parent

b_lownds127's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship