Reviews with content warning for Vomit - A Flicker in the Dark: A Novel

i usually hate mysteries but this one was pretty good! i thought i had it figured out but it surprised me in a good way. the author uses “drink in” too often lol but otherwise i like the way she writes! a solid experience tbh.

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bookscatcoffee's review against another edition

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dark tense slow-paced

2.5

This was a struggle for me. I did not care for how the author discussed and described other women. I figured out the twist pretty early, but I didn’t really care by the time it arrived. The MC was a mess that never really resolved. Just not my favorite. 2.5 stars

Mystery

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jennaviolet's review against another edition

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dark slow-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

0.5

Please don’t read this. There’s a lot of telling and no showing, no getting to the point. You can’t have all of the twists happen it makes no sense. It feels like this author read Sharp Objects, Where the Crawdads Sing, and other similar but better books and just took each plot point she liked and mixed them together. There is such a thing as too much detail. And none of these character relationships or explanations for even minor occurrences make sense or seem researched to even be plausible.

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cozy_soul_reads's review against another edition

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dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

📌 Book Elements 📌

🖤 Suspense
🗡 Murder Mystery
😨 Dark Elements
🏚 Complex Family
⏳️Dual Timelines
🩸 Thriller
📚 Psychologist FMC
🌟 Unreliable Narrator

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📕 Book Qoutes I Loved 📕
"The real monsters move in the light"

"If she was in love with a monster what did that make her?"

"What if your home isn't safe or secure? What if the same arms you collapse into are the same arms that took lives?"

"I have a darkness inside of me. That comes out at night."

"Running from him felt like running through a swamp."

"I'm nothing thinking of what it feels like to lose my life. I'm think of your father. What it feels like to take one."
"I force myself to keep walking towards the truth."

"When I'm caught up in a lie, I keep it simple."

"The noises of the night are beginning to emerge. Louisiana at night is a noise place, but I prefer it to silence. Because when it is silent you can hear everything, muffled breathes, foot steps crunching through dried leaves, in the distance. A shovel being dragged through the dirt."

"I never got involved with a guy who seemed intatilled who would get angry if I changed my mind."

"He isn't running. He still has work to do."

"I see the devil inside of him, that burst out of him one day. You're just like him, blaming something else on what you did."

"He was the author of my life. Spinning lies in my mind. A spider pulling people in his crafting tendrils watching them fight for their lives before devouring them whole."

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📚 Book Review 📚

I listened to this story as an audiobook and I was drawn in by the descriptions of each character, feelings and the building intensity. The Murder Mystery linked to a summer of missing girls, the main character Chloe's childhood and how the crimes that occurred in her past (check out in the blurb) impact her present. Six girls went missing was terrifying in this story, a small town and a crime that impacted everyone in the story.

This story felt suffocating in the tone of the FMC and I genuinely couldn't stop listening to this story. Each chapter felt like a episode of a intense mini series, the switch between past and present left me wondering if the killer had been caught. This story reminded me a lot of Bright Young Women By Jessica Knoll in tone.

The twists and turns in this story left me breathless. I figured out who the killer was half way through, but I still enjoyed the story.

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decafdirtychai's review against another edition

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adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

Strong character development? It's complicated

4.0

Another painful read about family and the horrors thereof! I think of “The Push” by Ashley Audrain. Incredible job of capturing the inherent exhaustion of being a woman. Almost five stars but not because I had trouble visualizing some scenes and the chapters were super short, like the reading equivalent of ending every sentence with an exclamation point

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cdkm9's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

A good suspenseful novel that kept me guessing.

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bergerreadsbooks's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

this book was CRAZY!!!! I couldn’t stop listening and i just wanted to know constantly what was next. so many twists and even though my initial hunch was correct in the end, i kept changing my mind the whole way through the book. i definitely recommend this

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coco78337's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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