Reviews tagging 'Deadnaming'

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

8 reviews

frankiegg's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Transphobia

Moderate: Child abuse and Deadnaming

luna_98's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

perfect mix of paranormal activity and weird white people shit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Gun violence, Infertility, Car accident, and Classism

kathywoo10's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Deadnaming, Infertility, Racism, Transphobia, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Classism

dizpig's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Deadnaming, Infertility, Car accident, and Gaslighting

Minor: Dementia

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This was so good, I couldn’t put it down. There were so many things that happened that I did not expect in the least. It was a wild ride, especially the last 100 pages or so. This book goes to show that you never know the lengths someone will go to protect their own interests and cover up their own lies and deceit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

spooderman's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Stalking, and Outing

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Chronic illness, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Classism

2357aya's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

1.0

I'll try to write a review without spoilers, so here are the facts. The actual mystery is okay. It's passable even though some events simply do not make sense. I don't have much to say about the plot, really. The drawings were a fun addition. The characters themselves were pretty one dimensional, but they way they interacted with each other felt almost realistic. There was one part though,

where every time they were in an argument they'd just randomly stop and go back to being normal and it was never awkward again

- that felt pretty unrealistic and got repetitive fast. What made me drag this rating down to 2.25 stars, though, was the writing. The constant references to modern day things done so incredibly bluntly in a way that shouts "I'm out of touch" just threw me. The politics / morals of this story are heavy-handed - but they make the twists so funny... speaking of, I guesses all the twists. It's not because I was going super-detective, it was because the main character was written like an idiot (but at least there were no hidden twists that were never set up -  if anything, there were too many red herrings). It also doesn't help that the book felt really clichéd (and the characters were really modern tropes as well). Actually, this was a theme in the writing, all the characters, at certain points, behaved really uncharacteristically. The MC read less like a recovering addict and more like a UPenn track star. Mallory has this weird ability to detect the male gaze and I think I have a similar ability to detect male authors because no sane woman acts the way Mallory does. This book feels like it was the author's first book (and for his sake, I hope it was). This book felt like a modern chick-flick romance that accidentally stumbled across a mystery - but really gradually. For such a quick read the events felt really slow-paced.

ALSO:

If the mom could possess her child at any time, why didn't she kill Caroline way earlier? It doesn't make sense

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

spookily's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood and Car accident

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Dysphoria