Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Every Vow You Break, by Peter Swanson

11 reviews

booknerdsinmn's review against another edition

challenging 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Infidelity, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

queensbeans'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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Emotional abuse

batcaves's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Blood, Confinement, Drug use, and Murder

hermithebs's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Infidelity

Moderate: Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Death, Suicide, Alcohol, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, and Blood

keijiwolf's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Body horror, Blood, Stalking, Sexism, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/injury detail, Infidelity, Gun violence, Torture, Gore, Gaslighting, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual content, Rape, Alcohol, and Sexual assault

Minor: Drug abuse and Suicide

nota_candycaine's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Confinement and Stalking

Minor: Alcohol

vbalchick_09's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

It was a great book for thriller junkies!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

hillarydanielle's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Male voices of the audiobook weren’t great and the third person narrative was strange since the story was all from Abigail’s point of view. Pretty predictable storyline but relatively fast paced, would recommend reading in one go. Overall felt like an unfinished first draft, lots of potential but nothing was fully connected  and fleshed out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Sexism, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Rape

sallysimply's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

1.5

I'm gonna need men to stop writing thrillers where the "thrill" is that the husband is abusive or the men hate women. Try harder!

The only reason I kept reading past the halfway point is because I thought that, surely, this wasn't just going to be about a bunch of men who hate women, right?? There must be something else going on like a weird science experiment or... truly anything else. But then, SURPRISE! That's all it's about. And since by that point I was 75% in, I just switched to 2x speed and powered through, but I was only half listening because I kept rolling my eyes at the absurdity of it all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement and Rape

Minor: Infidelity

lilifane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

2.0

 Yeah, no.
Maybe I shouldn't read books about marriages, I really don't enjoy them. :D The beginning was so boring. Telling a stranger everything about your past relationships during your bachelorett party (including highschool and family details completely irrelevant to the plot)? And then cheating with him on your fiance? And then just all the red flags, when the fiance/husband became totally controlling? But the book gets bonus points for pointing out that mabay she wasn't questioning her husbands creepy behavious because he was rich.
There was almost nothing surprising about the plot, you could see every twist coming ... basically from the beginning. The most surprising part was that action sequence at the end that reminded me a lot of the Tomb Raider parts I hate to play. I enjoyed that but it was pretty convenient to learn about all those hidden skills of the protagonist the second she needed them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence