Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Surrogate Mother by Freida McFadden

5 reviews

abanana101's review

emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Almost DNF’d the book 60% through because it was stressing me out so much lol. I’m an avid thriller reader but I hate the “everyone is framing me to seem like I’m crazy” trope. It had good twists but definitely stressed me out more than I liked. Ending also seemed a little rushed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

alex_bousquet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Women with infertility struggles in books need to stop thinking their husband's don't love them because of that. Abby should of seen the red flags as soon as Monica was so quick to be a surrogate for her 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Pregnancy

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Gaslighting

Minor: Drug use and Suicide attempt

monicabach's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cursing, Infertility, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide attempt

rsagarin's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ellaticonstellation's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I truly enjoyed this story. It's my first book from Freida and I'll read more. I love the concept and the mind games. It's twisted and dark though there are parts that I'm not happy about; overall, I liked this a lot. Thank you, Freida✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship