Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Perfect Little Children by Sophie Hannah

12 reviews

maxcooper's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

this is such a solid mystery! the pace was a bit slow at times, but the actual story itself was great. the characters were interesting and the mystery really kept me invested. i will be reading more from Hannah in the future!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

destinyf1988's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Rape

iffygeneia's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Grief and Gaslighting

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Alcohol

syddug's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Miscarriage

nisquah's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Rape, and Murder

Minor: Body shaming, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

galexy_brain's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Characters were dull. Not the author's fault, but I found the main character's "I don't get what's happening with the youth these days" attitude to be annoying to read about. The mystery was drip-fed and then answered all at once. I didn't find any of it unexpected and found the twists to be more like roadblocks delaying me from getting to the end of the story.

Lewis was so unbearable from the beginning that I couldn't understand why anyone ever thought he was good?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Islamophobia, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

camilla_p's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

The book was tense throughout and kept me intrigued. each chapter seem to introduce a new possible ending, only put the true ending to circle back to original suspicions but with more depth. Though this book was tense, it was more narration and dialogue driven than it was action driven. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

auteaandtales's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

oliviajoreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage and Rape

leggatkat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Drug use, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, and Abortion