Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

903 reviews

becinneverland's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

whatsemmareading's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, and Murder

kristihiggi's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Police brutality

Minor: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury

echenderlin's review against another edition

dark tense

3.0

Well written, however this book is so dark and graphic I know it will not leave my head for quite some time. 
Read at your own risk - rape, torture, violence, kidnapping, and murder of young women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, and Murder

thepurplepeep's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Gaslighting

jesikakaley's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, and Murder

ivriab's review against another edition

4.25

My jaw was on the floor so many times. I felt the end was a bit rushed, they tried to just tie everything up super quickly. I had several questions like

how did they tell the authorities about everything? What was the reaction to the volume of women affected? Did the authorities find the other bodies so the other families could lay them to rest?

I felt like these missing items make it to where I can’t give this a 5 star. I will warn this book is gruesome, graphic, gory, and horrifying at times - please look at the warnings before reading. I would consider this splatterpunk. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

or10n's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-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

4.0

This book took itself seriously. A lot of murder mysteries tend to lean into the campiness of the genre to avoid going too dark or depressing, but this book leaned into the darker aspects, which made me respect it. The prose was Dickensian at times, but overall very readable. Weirdly, this was one of the very few times that I've read a book and felt like the author had the appearance of their characters all wrong. I won't force my opinion, but it was as shocking to me as if she'd said they were blue. There were one or two out of pocket lines that I didn't love, but it's a long enough book to drown those out. I think that you'd enjoy this book IF you have the stomach for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Torture

Moderate: Rape and Kidnapping

Minor: Racism

ohsunnyaa'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: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming and Fatphobia

swajena's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, and Murder