Reviews tagging 'Death'

Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

8 reviews

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Alcohol, Death, Cursing, Drug use, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Dysphoria and Infidelity

joensign's review

dark tense fast-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: Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, and Death

Minor: Infidelity

venetiana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I really wanted to like this book – it started out very interesting – but I really don't. Latent racism, unnecessary violence, sphinx without a secret. I'm sad at how angry this book made me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Drug use, Racism, Misogyny, Stalking, Alcohol, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Car accident, Death, Murder, Mental illness, Suicide, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Blood, Alcoholism, Medical content, Sexism, and Xenophobia

cheye13's review

challenging medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Sexual content and Death

Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Eating disorder

horizonous's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Rape, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual content and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Vomit

◦ Death = friend
◦ Mental illness = Depression, hoarding disorder

maggiewen's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

“Obsession is about not wanting to be the self. Wanting to be other.”

I was almost 100% sure this was going to be a five start read for me. At least four starts but it didn’t even come close. 

The premise is so interesting: an obsessive women who ruins her own life chasing another woman, but the story went so slowly that the slow burn kind of burned out by page 100. I really liked Meggie and Sabine’s relationship at the beginning, it felt new and mysterious, and I was expecting it to feel a little less mysterious as we got to know the characters but we never really did. The only thing I think I know about them is that Meggie likes to drink and Sabine is an “it girl.” Their relationship (which I don’t even know if I want to call a relationship) felt really surface level and just boring when it has so much potential to be exciting or even a bit spooky.

To be honest I don’t think I can even talk about the plot because there was barely any. Like I’m not able to say at which part of the book was the climax because I don’t think there was one. The plot in this book is just a straight line, and sometimes I can excuse that if I like the characters but I don’t even like the characters. Sabine felt manipulative and selfish (especially towards the end) and Meggie was just…boring.

Nightshift is a pretty short and easy read if you don’t actually feel like reading, but if you want something complex and intriguing, this is not it.

“Women aren’t scared of being fascinated by other women.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol and Gaslighting

Minor: Death, Rape, and Mental illness

maureen's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Rape

Moderate: Death

Minor: Vomit

susie77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.0

I enjoyed the book and was curious enough to keep turning the pages until the book was finished. However, what started out as a regular contemporary sounding sort of book, went unexpectedly dark towards the end - very suddenly; one thing after another packed into a short amount of time. The plot also includes themes such as drugs, rape, self harm and toxic relationships. After I finished the book I found myself staring into space feeling extremely bewildered, not knowing what to make of it. It wasn't a nice feeling at all. Dark books are my preference, however, I've never been left feeling like this before after reading a book. 

The characters are extremely screwed up and I had no idea at the start of the book that a relatively contemporary sounding story was going to take such a drastic turn into what felt to me like weirdness. I didn't feel I could relate to any of the characters - the characters were under developed and unlovable and the story was told in a cold matter of fact way.

I didn't have a problem finishing it as I wanted to know what was going to happen next, however, I didn't enjoy how it left me feeling after I had finished it. I would only recommend it to people who like very dark storylines with weird unlovable characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Self harm