Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Dry, by Jane Harper

10 reviews

ginger95's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This was a mystery that I could not put down, and I finished in one day. I was deeply invested in the main character, and the bits of the past that were intertwined with the present.

Spoiler

I wasn't expecting who the killer was at all, and it really took me off guard! I did feel like there was a disconnect about Luke, I mean it was implied he was a manipulator/sociopath? and I feel like they built it up a little too much to be a red herring. Other than that great read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Child death

Moderate: Gun violence and Animal death

Minor: Incest, Animal cruelty, and Rape

sfenstermacher's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Rape

rebelstorm's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

 4.6/5
Quality of writing: 5
Plot development: 4
Pace: 5
Characters: 4
Enjoyability: 5
Ease of reading: 5 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Rape

awaterswadesthrough's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, and Rape

tzugealach's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Child death

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, Rape, and Alcoholism

apeck's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Incest, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Rape, Suicide, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Alcohol and Animal death

amberinbookland's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Misogyny, Incest, Grief, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Dementia, Death, and Cursing

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Self harm

typedtruths's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Child death

Moderate: Suicide, Addiction, Violence, Animal death, Death, Rape, and Child abuse

mariakureads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I came into this book years after reading Harper's Force of Nature which I was unaware of at the time was part of a series thinking that I would love this book as much give or take as the one I had read but I found myself struggling through this one.

The world building is still very much there and so was the attention to detail but it just dragged on for so long that after the 20% mark I was doubting I wanted to finish this. I was ready to give up but the next page gave me something to look forward to so I pressed on and at about the 200 page mark is when it finally got interesting for me to keep going  - That all the slow pace of the very drought that Harper wrote about for so many pages was going to dispel and it did and finally I was being riveted by the words, I was sucked in and at the end was still waiting for more and felt let down that after so much dragging around of the same "Luke Lied. You lied." that was repeated throughout that when that finally gets explained towards the end is hastily done as this book was about two different crimes at two different times with Falk in the center of both and so starts The Dry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

ophelia_'s review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Violence