Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Gone Tonight: A Novel by Sarah Pekkanen

39 reviews

_pauline's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Dementia, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Violence, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism

kirstencholewa's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Violence, Dementia, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

chloebear21's review against another edition

dark fast-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Violence

khaben31's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Dementia, and Murder

emilyacv's review against another edition

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

2.75

I’ve loved Sarah Pekkanen’s collars with Greer Hendricks, so I had higher hopes for this one. One of my fave parts of their collars is the unreliable narrators - these narrators just lie, and then tell us they are lying, or figure out each other’s lies. There’s a few too many “coincidences” of how these get uncovered, or how they decipher the truth from the lies. It also felt like every development in the story was hammered in too much - like I would already figure it out as a reader, and then the book would spell it out for me, which slowed the pace down a lot. The twists were not up to her previous books. I would skip this one and read one of her others with Greer Hendricks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Murder

cyndi1966's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Alcohol

elliebobellieee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Stalking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

cmbrown4's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault

avidreader8725's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcoholism and Infidelity

jenn_amanda's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide