Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Black Widows by Cate Quinn

7 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

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

nxclx's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

From the first five minutes of me starting this book, I was hooked and knew exactly how I wanted it to end. While I didn't get exactly what I wanted, I got pretty damn close. Great ploy twists, keeps you hooked the entire way through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

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