Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd

49 reviews

yamotha's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-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: Miscarriage, Suicide, Kidnapping, Stalking, Abortion, and Pregnancy

msmrkt's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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: Child death and Kidnapping

morgansims's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Kidnapping, Stalking, Abortion, and Pregnancy

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

thewellreadlabrador's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Abortion

danaslitlist's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.0

What was the point of this book? Honestly,  what was the point of that ending? Because if this was supposed to be a critique on social media and the dangers of mommy bloggers why the hell would the author attempt to make us sympathize after everything we witnessed? Is that a commentary on how bad guys win? If so even that failed spectacularly.

I’m so mad that I wasted my time but even more mad that this has the bones of a great story but absolutely fumbled everything else 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infertility, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, and Abortion

libras's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Bullying, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Suicide, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, and Vomit

lindsaylhunter's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-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

1.5

I can't quite place why I didn't enjoy this book. I just don't think it was for me. It didn't engage me or make me want to continue it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

_jchinasa's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

This satirises the influencer life, where every moment of your life is a piece of content that is marketable and for sale. Every person we meet who is part of the influencer world is presented as fake at best, and morally corrupt at worst. Emmy, meant to represent an inclusive and empowering vision for motherhood, is secretly a privately educated career woman whose every story is borrowed and whose words calculated to provide maximum engagement. She betrays her childhood friend in order to land a new gig. Her assistant Winter steals her influencer gifts and then later sells her photos online. Dan for a long part of the book is presented as a palette cleanser, who wants to give his family a real and authentic life rather than the Instagram version. But when the unthinkable happens, he quickly becomes just as bad as Emmy - selling in his own morality/ desire for privacy in exchange for a second shot at fame and renewed success as a writer. </Spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, and Stalking

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

Minor: Abortion

trhines23's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment