Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Black Widows by Cate Quinn

3 reviews

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

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

ewoods13's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Drug use and Self harm