Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Golden Couple, by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

12 reviews

brynhayes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Murder, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, and Stalking

clevelandbookgirl's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Cancer, Murder, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Injury/injury detail, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death, Blood, Alcohol, and Grief

zc2'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Literally buy it. Kept me on my toes. I thought I knew what was happening and then I was hit with a brick. I feel lied to. Currently questioning everything. Jaw dropping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Alcoholism, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Death of parent, Infertility, Injury/injury detail, Rape, Stalking, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

honeywine's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

I enjoyed reading this book and went through it pretty quickly thanks to the fast pace and mystery. The end

Spoiler

fell flat for me, and some aspects were just too convenient and seemed to only come together so the book can be completely tied up with a little bow of “the end”

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It is something I’d most enjoy as a beach or vacation read if I had to pick the best time for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Classism, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Infidelity, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Death, Emotional abuse, and Infertility

lgalgano32's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Murder, Blood, and Domestic abuse

riella_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

 Would've been a straight 4 but something about the ending I didn't like. I really loved the premise of this. A therapist lost her license and makes her business thrive by finding unorthodox ways to help her clients. Avery was my favorite character by far. I would love to read another story with her in it just doing her therapist thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Stalking, Blood, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Murder

sunsetcity's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Infertility, Murder, Miscarriage, and Stalking

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Cursing, Gun violence, Alcohol, Infidelity, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Infertility, and Death

Minor: Pregnancy, Blood, Suicide, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Terminal illness

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.5

So this book is about a therapist who's lost her license and now she treats her patients with out-of-the-box methods, because she can, and somehow no one steps in to question her ethics. Literally, not a single person in this entire book stops for one second to say, "this isn't ethical." Right off the bat, it's asking me to suspend a little too much of my disbelief.

So much of this book hinges on you being patient with mediocre writing, hollow characters, twists that make absolutely no sense with very little evidence throughout the book to support it, and for you to keep track of a bunch of side characters that add little to the story as a whole. Not to mention, by the time I was less than halfway through, I was already so tired of reading about these privileged WASPs - literally characters with lineage dating back to the Mayflower. I just stopped caring, but I *did* want to know if my theories were correct, because I am a freak who is obsessed with being right.

I can't say this is a complete dud - the book did have its moments that were genuinely creepy, and where I thought that Avery, the therapist, was sort of interesting. I enjoyed her chapters because at least they didn't feel as hollow as the chapters that followed Marissa, her client and one half of "the golden couple" in question. I also enjoyed her dog, he was adorable. I also thought that one of the scenes toward the end was very chilling, but it quickly became cringey and far-fetched, so it didn't really amount to much. Though I did enjoy Avery at times, it became increasingly hard to believe that she is as smart as these authors want to pretend she is.

All of this said, for once, I didn't call the ending of a thriller, which I enjoy, usually...except...I only didn't guess this ending because it made no sense in any realm.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Blood, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Murder, Alcohol, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Child death, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Medical content

Minor: Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Animal cruelty

veronicats's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Death, Stalking, Gun violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Grief, Gaslighting, and Injury/injury detail