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brttbwrs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment
lauraschroniclife's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
life_is_good's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Stalking
Minor: Addiction and Physical abuse
mysticforestcrafts's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
4.0
Pros:
This is another story with two incredibly strong women in impossible situations trying to find a way to survive. Each goes about it a little differently based on their background and resources yet they still end up in the same place change each other’s lives.
I truly appreciate that this book shows that paranoia can make a person fear someone who is only trying to help them because they have been so hurt in the past. Often people don’t understand why survivors will shun a new friend or help and I think this book highlights the fear and consideration they have to put into everything happening around them all the time.
Cons:
I think it is incredible that this book focuses on the difficulty for women to report and get away from abuse. However, I think that citing the me too movement and now having two books about women having to overcome things men have done is lacking inclusivity. I’m truly hoping that the author will take inspiration from the Depp vs Heard case and give us a book where a man is struggling to get away and recover. It is even less accepted for a man to claim a woman abused him and we need excellent writers in the field to share those stories side by side with the stories of women getting away. Let’s cut out gender bias completely and celebrate all the survivors.
Minor: Addiction, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse
Drug dealingbrenna2themax's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
I really enjoyed this book. Good twists, I liked the characters (especially Liz and Kelly). I really love reading thrillers, but I hate it when they have gratuitous sexual violence from the male.perspective. graphic, dehumanizing, used as a cheap tool to excite the reader. No thanks. As a woman and a Survivor, I just don't want to read that shit. But I do enjoy reading stories about domestic violence and male violence toward women from a woman's perspective. Not dwelling on the gory, graphic details because we get it, most of us have (or still are) loved through it somehow.
Julie Clark walks this line well, explaining the danger, but also understanding that the reader isn't an idiot and likely has their own trauma and has some knowledge on the subject.
Some of what I say next gives away some general themes in the book.
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More specific trigger warning, because I don't want to give to much away but want you to be prepared: domestic violence situation in which we read about a husband working up to an explosion (walking on eggshells stage), but
While the book does explore women's experience of violence from men, and not just from male partners, from male
I love these kinds of thrillers and really wish they had their own genre, because I am fucking sick to death of the thrillers that dehumanize women, graphically describe violence women endure, and then feed us some bullshit story about how we just have to find the "right" man to help us out. Fuck that noise. I want a realistic thriller from a woman's perspective. This is one of those books.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Grief, Stalking, and Death of parent
Minor: Bullying, Child death, Death, Car accident, Murder, and Outing
leahjamerson's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Moderate: Addiction and Domestic abuse
itsnofar's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use
Moderate: Addiction and Abandonment
Minor: Death of parent
dlrosebyh's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Addiction, Death, and Toxic relationship
faenairth's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment
Minor: Addiction, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Stalking, Car accident, and Death of parent
ekmook's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Addiction, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury