Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

30 reviews

corriejn's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide and Violence

amcghig's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

tristapruridge's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, and Gaslighting

Minor: Violence, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

growintogardens's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I had most of it figured out quicker than expected, but it kept my attention throughout and surprised a couple times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

cbbyles07's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Suicide and Murder

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.0

this was good but it felt like too much and not enough at the same time. some things were repetitive and some were underdeveloped. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

emmdashed's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

Bob is too good for all of these terrible people. Every other character was trash. 

The Twist was unexpected, and it certainly kept me reading. However, given how character driven this story was I needed to be able to connect and like at least one of them. Even just a little.

The writing was fine. Very readable, if needlessly and unrealistically cryptic. But that comes with the genre, so I can't fault it too much. 

I have some Thoughts on the ending so Spoilers ahead: 
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Two separate people being this obsessed with a man? Who by all accounts seems like a completely self interested ass? The fuck? Unbelievable. Could never be me. 

Especially when Adam and Robin get back together ???? Like ???? Girl psychologically tortured, then stabbed your wife? I know you didn't like your wife much but still. Can you ever trust that person again? Let alone think "everything inside her is beautiful"? What more can we expect from Adam I guess. 

Amelia wasn't a good person at all, but I don't think she deserved what happened to her. 

Also literally what was the point of the last chapter. It added nothing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Sexual content, and Suicide

julienicole1106's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

glens's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Toxic friendship

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Amelia and Adam both know their marriage is on the rocks. In a last ditch effort to rekindle their love, Amelia drags them on a secluded weekend vacation. 

Soon enough, things start to go wrong—lost power, whispers in the dark, their usually quiet dog growling at shadows. Will they make it out of the weekend together again? What about alive? 

While this novel did indeed have twists, turns, and surprises, they felt a bit like overkill to me. Some were down right unbelievable. It was entertaining enough to discover Amelia and Adam’s fate, but I probably won’t remember much of it a few months from now. It just didn’t live up to the hype it got. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse