Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Genuine Fraud, by E. Lockhart

13 reviews

hannahs_library__'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Blood, Murder, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Suicide, Stalking, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse

rebeccarudisill's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

5 stars for narrative drive and creativity. But 0 stars for

Spoiler

ALL THE MURDER.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Murder, Gore, Violence, Sexual assault, Blood, and Infidelity

kshertz's review

adventurous mysterious medium-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

4.0

She definitely writes mysterious stories that has me guessing until the very end! I don’t think anything will match We Were Liars, but this was a good follow up. It wasn’t as hard to predict outcomes but the end twist got me! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Violence, Stalking, Gaslighting, Death, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

chronicallyplotting's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

This is my first book by this author and I must say I enjoyed her writing style and how she dives into her characters. 
I liked how it was a fast paced thriller/ mystery and not a book I had to over think. The characters were diverse and took some figuring out (in a good way). I also enjoyed getting to read in reverse; as this book is written with the big “events” in the beginning and you read back in time to find out how everything came to be as it was. 
The only cons for me was trying to remember that I was reading in reverse because sometimes you would forget and something would either not make sense (yet) or with the way they were segmented in time frames it was hard to realize things were not happening in real time. So settings and characters were hard to track for me. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Cursing, and Murder

emasu's review

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Gaslighting and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent, Abandonment, and Child abuse

sydneyfegi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

deranged woman! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship

nnread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Suicide and Abandonment

daniellafrella's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

3.75

The way this book is written is what makes it so wonderful. It starts at the end and back tracks, revealing more and more answers and details as we travel back in time with the main character. Beautiful writing. Really a page turner. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Stalking, Suicide, and Mental illness

lucychafia's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

I liked this book quite a bit! It was very hard to understand but that's my fault, not the books. Although the protagonist is pretty insane, i really liked reading her perspective. When I got to the end, i think there was some kind of twist but it was hard for me to understand, again probably my fault. I think I'll have to read it again. I had to have enjoyed it though cause i finished it in one sitting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Death

charlann's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

5.0

I read this book when it first came out and it has been sat on my shelf since. I decided to pick it back up for a reread as I remember I enjoyed it but couldn't remember much about the storyline. I loved it just as much the 2nd time round, I'd forgotten all of the twists and turns and was enthralled by it! Such a cleverly written tbriller

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Sexual assault, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Gaslighting