Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Black Widows by Cate Quinn

12 reviews

jackie_reads_314's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, and Gaslighting

amethyst_drake's review

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

bubblehead_1994's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy

strawberrypupcake's review

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

gm3116's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

witchytrippin's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, and Rape

dewwry's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

such a great book, got me into reading. 

so the book is about three wives of Blake. it does this great thing where it switches perspective between the wives. Blake dies and one of his wives killed him  and the whole book just trying to unravel the mystery behind his death. 

there are a lot of religious themes (since the main cast of characters are Mormon) but as a not religious person i don’t think it gets in the way of story too much, like some things are important to the plot.

also there is this cult thing that happened so warning??

in the beginning i was a bit confused but all of the wives are in a polyamory relationship with Blake but do not get along themselves.

i don’t know much if this is actually a good book since i’m not much of a reader but i loved it dearly. i had a joy reading it. it was special so i would recommend it :)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

sbeierle's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Murder, and Pregnancy

epilieaspiechick's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

Such a dark and brooding book, but it was so addictive to read! One of my favorite books of the year easily. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Rape

Minor: Drug use