Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody

7 reviews

sydresnik's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

luverbyrd's review against another edition

dark sad 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? Yes

2.0

Starts dark and stays dark. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Mental illness and Pedophilia

syellico's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

afasanello's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Antisemitism

mflynn8908's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

chandie's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug use, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Death of parent

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.0

Thank you to Netgalley and Soho Press for the eARC!

Compelling enough story and quick to read, not sure if it was the ease of the writing style or because I was trying to squeeze one last book into 2023.

I didn’t always like the MC Teddy, she made very questionable choices and was judgmental or toxic a lot of the time. Which she’s going through it with so much loss. I don’t mind unlikeable characters but make it interesting, not unlikeable for the sake of being unlikeable. There was also zero character development unfortunately.

Also hated the romantic aspect of the novel due to the age gap (and more so when they met 👀) that was 🤢

The transitions are very abrupt and jarring. One minute we are at the mom’s house and the next Teddy is at school texting Mickey? It made things really confusing.

More crime than mystery/thriller and not at all what I expected from the synopsis. It’s also marketed as “twisty and sexy” and it’s anything but 🙃 it wasn’t predictable but it also didn’t shock me if that makes sense? Things were revealed and it was like an “oh okay, moving on” feeling. As for sexy…suicide, missing sister, a creepy older dude that knew you as a kid, and mistreatment/death of animals is not sexy?!

And going back to the mistreatment/suffering of animals; Why is the dog having cancer and being put through misery and slowly starving to death necessary? What was the point? It was completely unnecessary to the plot or characters and was just there. Sorry I just don’t like books that have gratuitous descriptions of animal suffering to try and make some weird symbolism or representation behind the story/characters. It was disturbingly graphic.

Finally the ending doesn’t give us concrete answers and felt rushed. We get a sort of picture of what might have happened but it’s quickly passed over.

Overall I’m giving it 3 stars because I was intrigued and entertained enough to finish. Less a mystery/thriller and more a deep look at obsession, grief, unhealthy relationships and a woman with severe mental health issues. If you know that going in and don’t mind graphic descriptions of animal suffering and death, you may enjoy this more than me.

TW/CW: animal death, cancer, suicide, infidelity, drug abuse, death of parent, sexual content, animal cruelty, body shaming, stalking, toxic relationship, self harm, blood, gun violence, ableist slur (brief mention),

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Ableism, Infidelity, and Stalking