Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Black Widows by Cate Quinn

8 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

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

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

chelseasbookshelf2's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

This was a unique fast paced thriller that had you guessing til the very end who the killer was. I was shocked by the ending, and definitely thought 1 or 2 other people had done it. 

What I liked:
- super short chapters 
- told from multiple POVs and timelines
- gave good background on Latter Day Saints 

What I didn't like:
- very long and could have been 100 pages shorter 
- a little confusing at times and hard to follow 
- wish we had a chapter from Blake at the time of his death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

kmsisler's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Murder