Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

One by One by Ruth Ware

25 reviews

l_winely's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault and Bullying

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Sexual assault, and Bullying

Minor: Confinement, Alcohol, Classism, Toxic friendship, Rape, Infidelity, and Vomit

growintogardens's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Classism, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Bullying, and Sexual assault

erkietheturkey's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Mental illness, Murder, Alcohol, Bullying, Grief, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Drug use

saliwali's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Bullying, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, Classism, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

a_alves00's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Classism, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual harassment, Violence, Body horror, Bullying, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Murder

dorsetreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Violence, Classism, Drug use, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

batcaves's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Excrement, Grief, Alcohol, and Bullying

stephs_cozycorner's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

I had a really hard time getting into this one and felt that it was a very slow start.  

About half way through it started to pick up and I was excited to see where it was headed, but it very quickly fell flat again for me.   

While I usually love dual POV, especially in thrillers, this one didn’t work for me.   I felt like we kept reading the same thing with the two characters chosen.  There wasn’t a lot of depth that could be reached in the story and I felt like using a few more character views could have really helped.  

Also, the last few chapters were unnecessary and just really made the story drag on.  

I did like the descriptive writing and really felt like I was in the French Alps stranded after an avalanche surrounded by freezing cold snow.  It definitely gave me the chills. 

I have enjoyed many novels by Ruth Ware, unfortunately this one just fell flat for me.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault and Bullying

alisure's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Sexual assault and Gore