Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Surrogate Mother by Freida McFadden

6 reviews

kn711's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

alis143's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

tierraskye's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

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

hmkuecker's review

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

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