Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Cousins - Tiga Sepupu by Karen M. McManus

21 reviews

missbitiz's review against another edition

funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Violence, Dementia, Car accident, and Murder

annamwallace66's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use

dramagirl2003's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

i loved this book, and the fact that i managed guess the ending almost bang on. jonah

impersonating JT was the best plot twist ever and gave us a cute ship ♥️

thoughts while reading

p15: it's giving inheritance games
p32: sheesh that's an awkward first meeting to say the least
p80: AH!

REAL JONAH MUST BE ALLERGIC TO SHRIMP

! that must be how milly figured it out! what an absolute manipulative legend!!
p112: ohhh, jonah's dad must be the one who

lost all the money to anders

p113: yep
p114: i predict that jonah and milly will

get together by the end of the book

p116: that is a master plan
p123: is dr baxter faking his dementia or something??
p132: chaz is

uncle archer

?? honestly milly should just become a detective at this point
p135: honestly fair. he deserves water in the face
p141: damn fred baxter is a lot smarter than people give him credit for
p142: prediction: allison

gets pregnant with matt's baby

p156: DR BAXTER?? NOOOO
p169: i hope the Story kids didn't get the boot because of kayla
p181: maybe the car accident was just a cover up?
p193: i wouldn't, i have an off feeling about hazel
p198: WELL THAT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN!! KEEP THE PDA TO PRIVATE!! but also

#jilly 🫶🏻

p229: what if adam and anders tried to

kill matt and kayla

p242: matt too! well this is just looking suspicious! maybe anders

drowned both matt and dr baxter

p256: oh my God, major prediction time: mildred actually

died 24 years ago and someone else took both mildred's and theresa's place

and that's why you never see either of them
p257: or what if theresa

murdered kayla?

p296: well that turned out almost exactly how i thought it would. i should take up mystery solving

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing, Incest, Miscarriage, Vomit, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

jadeandherbunny's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.5

McManus does the same thing over and over again
Same characters, same narrative scheme as her other books
I won't read any of her books again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Incest and Abandonment

ashleysager'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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Classism

looloo_01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious relaxing sad 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

4.5

hard to start but finally really liked it !

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment

honestlyyours77's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Car accident, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Drug use, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

makenna_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Incest

violetbentbackwards1036's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lexa's review against another edition

dark mysterious

3.75

Was a captivating read. Lots of family secrets. Lots of unlikable characters. Probably won’t stick with me for long though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Infidelity, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Minor: Miscarriage

Drowning