Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Never Lie by Freida McFadden

12 reviews

christinewashere's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Blood, Mental illness, and Stalking

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

sierrabedwell's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This was a good one! I thought it was kind of slow but had so many smaller plots within the big plot that it kept my interested. Oh my goodness the ending was something I never saw coming! I kept trying to figure out the twist but never imagined what actually happened, even though after I found out, it seemed obvious! It was a very sinister ending… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Stalking, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Gore, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Violence, Vomit, and Torture

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

    Snowed in at the house of a missing psychiatrist with her husband, a woman listens to tapes of the therapist's sessions to try to solve her murder. But is someone else in the house? And one simple fact rules, everyone lies...
   I enjoyed this book. It had twists I didn't see coming! I saw parts of one twist but only about a quarter of the true twist. The characters, however, weren't very likable. Tricia bent way too much to her husband and wasn't assertive at all through most of the book just her husband knows best. 
    Overall, a great thriller. Just not as enjoyable as it could have been with a more likable MC, but I see how that served the greater story. 

  Extra ratings: Fluff - 0/5 Heartfelt- 2.5/5 Helpful-NA Horror -0.5/5 Inspiration -NA Love aka Romance-2.5/5 Mystery -3.5/5  Predictability -2/5 Spice -0/5  Suspense -4/5  Tear- 1.5/5 Thrill - 4/5  Humor-0.5/5 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Alcohol, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Car accident, Drug use, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Body shaming, and Sexual content

markedwithanm's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Stalking, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Moderate: Pregnancy and Car accident

lenkaengels's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Terminal illness, Murder, Death, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

Minor: Grief and Vomit

brianna97's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Ms. McFadden gets me every. single. time. I really thought I had this one figured out to my core from the beginning and I was SO WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING! The twists were BEYOND shocking in this one. The only thing keeping it from a 5 for me is this book did not have her best epilogue in my opinion. Otherwise, bravo Frieda - you played me AGAIN.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Gore, Murder, Death, Violence, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Car accident, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

graysonbax's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Grief, Death, Mental illness, and Blood

snd1101's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

2.0

I was so hopeful when I realized it was going to be one of my favorite horror/thriller tropes (“the call is coming from inside the house”), but alas. The red herrings start out good but after the entirely contrived and poorly done twist, it would have been better if the red herrings were real. The twist isn’t believable with how everything has been set up, and the plotting is weird and uneven (we take like 300 pages to set up and the last 35 are the conclusion?? Ugh). The beginning and middle are very promising and entertaining despite the very romance novel-style writing, but it goes downhill very quickly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit and Pregnancy

alex1's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Animal cruelty, Blood, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Gore, Mental illness, and Murder

hermione_gilmore's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Great plot twists, loved it. Really thrilling, couldn’t put it down at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Blood