Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

49 reviews

breerehac's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I think I would have enjoyed this book more if I hadn't just read Verity. Too many similarities (though All the Dangerous Things was better).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

dfriend12's review against another edition

dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Pregnancy and Abandonment

laur_astor'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

Super intriguing and kept me interested throughout! 3.5 stars because the ending was a little unbelievable but still well written!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy

erinjeanette's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

kimberlina82's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

tierraskye's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

clarklyn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

I LOVED this book! Loved the unreliable narrator that you still wanted to defend and root for. I was shocked several times throughout the book. I thought I had it figured out several different times but never had it truly solved. 

My ONLY complaints are that the voices the narrator used (in the audiobook) for the men was cringey and the potential animal cruelty that was just glossed over? The MC went an ENTIRE DAY without letting her dog outside? Whaa? 

Amazing book otherwise and it made me want to read all of her stuff.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

snoopyfanclub's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Infertility

probably_confused's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Emotional abuse

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

Isabelle's son goes missing and she will stop at nothing until she finds him. 

This one pulled me right. We follow Isabelle, an mother whose son is missing, she is grieving, suffering from PTSD, and barely sleeping. She is the definition of an unreliable narrator, yet you want to believe her. We are steeped in her grief and paranoia. You are right with her the entire time picking apart the pieces and trying to make sense of it all. 

There are definitely a few red herrings along the way. Did she do something to him while sleep walking? Was it her narcissistic husband? Is Whalen the guilty one? Was it the creepy man down the street? What are the cops hiding? 

We find out that when she was younger, Isabelle had a history of sleep walking. One night her sister died in the marshes behind the house.

We are lead to think that  Isabelle lead her to her death and that she killed her son while sleep walking. Then we find out that it was actually her mother, suffering from severe PPD who was guilty. She has planned to kill herself and her 2 daughters, but only the one daughter died.

The whole time I thought it was the husband.

He is obviously a narcissist, possibly sociopath who is manipulative, controlling, and gaslights everyone. He is always on the hunt for a younger version of his wife. His first wife died of suicide while pregnant and then his son with his second wife goes missing while he is in the throws of an affair with a younger model. Convenient or guilty? Well he is certainly guilty of something, but not of killing his son.

I was shocked when

it was revealed that it was the girlfriend who kidnapped her son! I was not expecting that at all. She was jealous and wanted Isabelle out of the picture, so she took the child and gave him to a woman to raise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Gaslighting