Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Hunted by Darcy Coates

19 reviews

duckdog's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Alcoholism and Infidelity

coco78337's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Not where I was expecting this book to go based on the summary, but good overall. (Edit: Originally rated this 3 stars. Then I read a book that’s similar… this is actually 5 star. I should have never doubted you Darcy I’m so sorry)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Blood, Stalking, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lindzboots's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

An excellent thriller! This book read like a slasher film set deep in the green labyrinth of a national orest put on paper. It was well-written and the audiobook reader, Angela Dawe, put on a truly impeccable performance. Written entirely in third person, we got to experience the perspectives of several different characters, and each one had a wonderfully unique voice. It was thrilling, excruciating, gut-wrenching, and terrifying at times. An excellent tale about determination, love, and humanity’s insistence on survival.

Some highlights for me: the eerie atmosphere of the ominous forest really shone through to the point where I was a little spooked reading it at night; being inside Todd’s head was excruciating in its own right and I ate up every second of it; the combinations of spooky forest, cryptid horror, and serial killer slasher hit all the right buttons; and though I’d suspected the answer to the mystery way, way earlier, the end truly surprised and delighted me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence and Mental illness

Minor: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

pregnancy loss

willowmae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I love Darcy Coates books, the few I have read are superb, she has a masterful way of writing.
The ending was a little disappointing but in total an incredible thrilling read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

cormoranlucreade's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying and Violence

Minor: Child death, Blood, Grief, and Stalking

nicoletiff's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

twinkle_flavored's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

4.0

Omgooorsh what a ride! Such a departure from the other D.C. I have read. This unfolds like a found footage documentary, and you get multiple character perspectives. This not only leaves you with bated breath at the end of most chapters come mid-book, but it makes for a truly fun (and at times super gross) read. I have been dipping my toes in the horror genre, and I found this very beginner friendly. 

While I would have liked more character depth, there was enough to keep you either seething or rooting for someone. She wrote Todd all too well…I’ve known this man, and it just gave me the shivers each time we were on his chapters! 

While definitely not cozy horror, it’s a casual fun horror, and I would definitely recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

appleslicesllc's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I wasn’t sure what to think of this book. It started off slow and I put it down several times before trying again. But about halfway through it got much more interesting with a lot of twists and turns! And the ending was much better than the start. 

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Content Warnings

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

violetwillow's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Stalking

Minor: Miscarriage

funkyartmuffins's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I picked this book up second hand for a couple bucks and I'm sure glad I did! I'm going to look for more books by this author now. It was a really fast read for me and I enjoyed it immensely! It was creepy and exciting. 

I only had a couple of small issues like:

 

Why didn't they look at the negatives? How large were these spools of string? I feel like you need a whole craft store full of string to put as much up as they did.

But it was really fun to read and those are all minor complaints! Can't wait to find more books by this author! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Child death and Pregnancy