Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

No Exit by Taylor Adams

74 reviews

nicchen22's review

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Minor: Racial slurs

aniwillow's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual violence, Blood, Gun violence, Confinement, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness, Excrement, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Grief, and Animal cruelty

rawrsoobin's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, Trafficking, Gaslighting, and Ableism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Vomit, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Cancer, and Alcoholism

ohkaereads's review against another edition

reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book's only purpose was introducing me to things I'll possibly not like (wintery & snowy settings, isolation/single locations, one day/night settings) and things I'll possibly like (cat/mouse trope, literary writing, character studies) in thrillers. It all felt so standard and predictable in a bad way. I felt no connection to the story whilst reading and probably will forget I ever read it. Hopefully, the movie will have more of an effect on me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Racial slurs, and Cursing

Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Sexism, Animal cruelty, Pedophilia, and Terminal illness

svmreads's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Vomit, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

samnash's review against another edition

First off, this book is very slow. Then,

Spoiler

I flipped to a random page on accident and read a paragraph and it was just blatant racism. After reading some reviews, I found out that it in no way adds to the story No one is telling the character it’s wrong and there was zero development around it. Just racism for the sake of racism.

Spoiler

I am no longer interested in finishing this novel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

wends_nblw's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I need to start taking reviews with a grain of salt because they always set my expectations too high. That being said, this was still a good thriller.

I couldn't stand Darby at first, but I found myself warming up to her towards the halfway point before fully loving her character by the end. With the rest of the cast, I couldn't decide if I hated or loved them. There aren't many side characters : aside from Darby, we have five other distinctive characters.

As for the culprit

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(in this case : one of the culprits, Ashley)

... I found myself fully enraptured by them. Their motive, their point of view, the way they spoke.. I couldn't help but find myself being manipulated by them. By the end, I was as smitten with them as they were with Darby. For sure one of my favorite antagonists of any book.

So many twists and turns, I wouldn't say this book had me on the edge of my seat, but it certainly had me sitting up straight. Every time I thought this book was going to end, that Darby and this little girl, Jay, were going to escape, 'No Exit' would toss that hope aside and shoot me with a nail gun. I would groan and in the words of our villain, say "oh, come on."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Incest, Torture, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, and Vomit

This book uses the n + r slurs both once.

claire_reardon'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? No

2.5

This was the exact kind of nonsensical stupidity I needed after two heavy fantasy books. Can’t wait to see the movie and laugh through the entire thing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Cancer, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racial slurs, Death, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

seena's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed all of the characters and each of their motivations. Even though I hate Ashley, his character was still very intriguing and really well written. I loved the multiple perspectives and it really added to the atmosphere of the book. I recommend this to anyone who wants a really good, single title, quick read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Racism, Trafficking, and Rape

noceur's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

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

3.0

i thought this was going to be a mystery but apparently not we learn who the kidnapper is in the first chapters, i have mixed feelings about this book some parts were cheesy and sometimes the villain came of as the over the top, mustache twirling kind and it took me out of the story but other times i would find myself rooting for the fmc and guessing what will happen, overall it was a good time but just keep in mind that this book relies on the shook value if you want things to make sense all the time this is not it there are some stupid decisions

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Racism, and Misogyny

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, and Pedophilia