Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

7 reviews

throwback682's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I thought this book was really inventive and unique. I’m impressed by all the things the author must’ve had to keep track of to avoid plot holes in this format.

It was maybe a bit long or dragging at times but I think everything was also necessary? And it still kept my interest. I actually stayed up late because I had to know how it ended. 

What I didn’t really like:

1) I feel like this book was copaganda. The police are criticized for a large portion of the book but Surprise! in the end they were the good guys all along. 2) I didn’t love the way it focused a lot on “mom guilt”. (But that eventually resolved.)

I definitely didn’t expect the Ending (plot resolution) [well, part of it became clear over the course of the book, but part of it was a complete surprise to me at least] or the ending (epilogue).

(Which was kind of a cliffhanger)

I thought it was kind of neat that she forgets everything in the end.

Random silly observation: I love how the narrator did the American accent of the physicist lol. 

If you don’t mind following a complicated Memento-like plot, this is a really great book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Suicide, Blood, Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Sexual content

crystal689's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Car accident and Pregnancy

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Drug abuse, Stalking, Vomit, Infidelity, Grief, Cancer, Abandonment, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Car accident, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Cursing, and Mental illness

celestialg's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A time-travel, wish fulfillment book that didn’t suck?! Unprecedented. I feel like I can’t write anything else without spoiling it so just trust me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug use, Gore, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Blood, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Infidelity, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping, Alcohol, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, and Addiction

CW: language (for the American folks who get upset about the F word), witnessing a gory crime, drug use and dealing

arthur_ant18's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pregnancy, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, and Kidnapping

Minor: Violence and Suicide

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

Thank you, Michael Joseph Penguin Publishing, for sending this book in exchange for an honest review. 

Late October. After Midnight Jen is waiting up for her seventeen-year-old son Todd to arrive home, he’s late. As Jen watches from the window, he emerges, and Jen sees he’s not alone. He is walking toward a man, and he’s armed. Jen cannot believe what she sees him do – her funny, happy teenage soon has just killed a stranger, right there on the street outside her house. She doesn’t know who or why. She only knows that Todd is now in custody and his future is gone. That night Jen goes to sleep feel despair. She is feeling lost. Until she wakes up . . . and it’s yesterday. And when she wakes again . . . it’s the day before yesterday. Every morning when Jen wakes it’s a day earlier, another day before the murder. With another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lies an answer. The trigger for this crime – and she doesn’t have a choice but to find it. 

This book has a really interesting concept and I was a little sceptical on how it was going to work, but Gillian McAllister managed to pull it off. I really enjoyed seeing the additional POVs from Ryan who is a cop who is working undercover and how his story played out. I did struggle with this book at the beginning, I was wondering where it was going to go, by the end I was completely hooked and wondering if Jen was going to be able to stop this murder. Also, I liked the fact that we were also equally confused about why she was at what date until Jen figured it out – it made it seem like we were in Jen’s shoes. I really enjoyed this book once I finally managed to get into it. I would have loved to see POVs from Todd like how he got the knife, why he’s going to do it, how he met Clio etc. 

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a crime/thriller mystery book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Minor: Car accident