Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Girl Before by Rena Olsen

8 reviews

xinawebb's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Abortion, and Murder

manichannah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Kidnapping, Murder, and Gaslighting

andeebee26's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

ashleybee08's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Murder

akf_'s review against another edition

dark 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, and Alcohol

erikajdea's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence

doha's review against another edition

The content was too heavy for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Child abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, and Pregnancy

The entire book is about human trafficking and the victim's

inability to come to terms with her victimhood and how she harmed other girls

without fully understanding the scope of what she was doing.

morevna's review against another edition

0.25

 I don't write reviews often but with this one I think I should. I also want to give a massive content/trigger warning, specificially about stockholm syndrome, manipulation, physical and emotional abuse, victim blaming, kidnapping, r*pe and of course, trafficking.
The worst of all of this though, for me, was the stockholm syndrome. It's very obvious what's going on with the narrator and it is painful to read. Her view of reality and what's happening is completely screwed and messed up and that was difficult. I can't really say that she was likable, most of the time I felt either pity or annoyance. Also, she's big on victim blaming, which is mostly not her fault but that was also scarring to read. At about 80 percent through it also felt rather like the story was dragging on just for the sake of filling more pages. It could have been shorter. Or maybe the end just felt a little shallow because it was obvious were the story was heading and the rest of it just didn't seem as important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy