Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Black Widows by Cate Quinn

16 reviews

jackie_reads_314's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

Magnifique! All the characters were both trustworthy and sketchy simultaneously. Quinn did an amazing job fully fleshing out all three women, and the mystery felt like a puzzle that you keep adding sides to. Rip to all that religious trauma, it really be like that sometimes. 

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quabbityash's review

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adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5


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a_b_lee's review

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dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.25

Like others, found the Emily character underdeveloped and didn’t love the ending. Would love to have just heard more from Rachel or cut the book by a few hundred pages. Couldn’t put it down toward the end but by then I cared more about Rachel’s backstory and less about who killed their husband 

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amethyst_drake's review

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challenging dark tense slow-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

4.0


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bubblehead_1994's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional slow-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? Yes

4.75


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strawberrypupcake's review

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Murder mystery plus religion and you get this crazy book that has parts of the plot loosely based on Warren Jeffs’ and the LDS in Utah. This book is creepy. It is interesting. It had lots of twists and turns. The killer isn’t who you might think. I really enjoyed this! 

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gm3116's review

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

3.75


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witchytrippin's review

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

I struggled to get into the book. I almost gave up but I truly had a desire to know who killed him. I wish I would’ve been prepared for some of plot points this story takes. I know some could be very triggering for some and I hope they don’t get taken by surprise like I was. Overall the book was fine I suppose the ending was decent enough can’t say I didn’t see it coming though.

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sbeierle's review

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dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0


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