Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Księżniczka z lodu by Camilla Läckberg

12 reviews

dark sad slow-paced
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No

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dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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dark mysterious sad slow-paced
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated

TW: molestie sessuali
L’incoerenza totale della protagonista mi ha distratta per buona parte del libro 
MA PUOI venire molestata dal marito di tua sorella e andare da lei a dirle che la sua sofferenza non serve a niente se non denuncia la violenza domestica? Ma denuncialo tu e fatti i cazzi tuoi. MA POI una roba  traumatica accade A CASO e nessuno ne parla mai più? Prontoo

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Excellent look at parent child relationships and the psychological repercussions of childhood abuse. 

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dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Slow and very predictable book. The story has nothing new to offer. To my taste the characters lacked some depth, even though the author tried very hard to give them back stories I think she did not accomplish what she aimed for. I found it so interesting how the characters kept missing clues and information, and I guess it was on purpose, so the author could keep the book going, which is not always good.
I read a translation, not the original language in which the book is written, not sure if it was the translator's fault, or if the author really writes like that, but hated the way it was written, there's so many words that are so repetitive and posh words that no one uses, almost feels like this book was written with the intention for it to become a tv series one day. 
I saw the author has published many more books since this one, from the experience I got from this one I won't be reading another book from her, but I hope she has improved since this book was published. And that she also has overcome her fatphobia 

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Ihan koukuttava. Mielenkiintoista seurata ihmisten ajatuksenjuoksua eri tilanteissa. 

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Check CW for this one.

A good solid mystery for the first in a series. I was gifted book 2, so reading this was prep work for reading that one.

There were a lot of characters to keep track of for the first 1/3 of the book, until I could keep track of who they all were and how they connected to each other. 

I enjoyed the pacing and all the twists and turns the story took. I did not enjoy some of the shame-y descriptions of the characters. 

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I liked the story a lot and it was very well pointed. I really liked the style of writing and storytelling. He was very readable and ran at a brisk pace. However, I must say that some lines of the story did not, in my opinion, end properly.

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dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes

I’m not sure what to give as a starred review but I will tell you that the style of this book frequently aggravated me; the characters would find new information and go, hmm, that’s interesting, and the readers wouldn’t get to know the information for potentially dozens of pages. I know why it was done, but it still annoyed me. And there were so many threads that in the end I still had a few questions that were answered in the book but I no longer remembered after so much else had happened. But maybe that’s just me and my bad memory and slow reading.

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