Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger

19 reviews

madlain's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Rape, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Infertility, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage

dawneelisabeth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Self harm and Suicide

sarahmaemae's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Rape

maeverose's review against another edition

This was my first attempt at a thriller, I only picked it for the cover tbh. I’d suggest skipping it.

The first third was somewhat interesting, but then it derailed for me. There are too many characters and povs, some of which seemed to have been thrown in unnecessarily. I also really don’t like to read about stalkers so it got a bit triggering for me. I looked up how it ends and it wouldn’t have been worth it to keep reading.

It also really felt like it was going to have a ‘childhood trauma and mental illness makes you homicidal or a stalker’ Kind of take, as the two antagonists seemed to be the only characters in the entire book with mental illness issues (besides Hannah’s mom, who was also just a shitty person). This came out last year. We’re done with that trope. That should never have been a trope to begin with.

Thankfully I got this for free at a little free library so I didn’t waste my money.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Infertility, Death, Death of parent, Stalking, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Infidelity, Grief, Drug use, Suicide, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Child death, Ableism, Blood, Eating disorder, Alcohol, and Self harm

Minor: Misogyny

abookandaspotoftea's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Murder, Infertility, Mental illness, Stalking, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Rape, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Toxic friendship, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Abortion, Animal death, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

jnhenderson7's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Suicide, and Sexual assault

bpezzuti's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Infidelity

shadowbearreads's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Murder, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

kristen_mk's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

1.0

 The first 80% of this book, I thought it was fine…good ideas but wasn’t loving the execution. However, I was still curious to see what it was all leading up to. The final 20%, it jumped the shark. In two back to back chapters, there was underage rape, gaslighting, animal cruelty/death, more gaslighting and suicide.
I thought “wow I’m rooting for the killer!”. Until you find out the motivation of this killer is eugenics.
In the end, this book just wasn’t for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Pedophilia, Rape, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Miscarriage

julienicole1106's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Grief, Pregnancy, Stalking, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Infertility, Infidelity, Car accident, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Vomit