Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

32 reviews

suchallie's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

This would have been a near 5 star for me but the ending?! wtf???? zero closure!

otherwise an excellent read, I devoured this in 3 days. some of the red herrings are obvious in the writing but that I can forgive. The ending I cannot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Infertility, Stalking, Pedophilia, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcohol, Infidelity, Drug use, Gaslighting, Blood, and Kidnapping

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.0

Margot, a crime reporter, returns to her small home town to care for her sick uncle and to look into the 20 year old case of her childhood friend's death. 

This book flips between 2 timelines. The past when January is killed and the present when Margot come back to town. Everyone is a suspect and you never really know who to believe. Was it the brother? The mother? A random man?

This was an interesting take on a cold case story, but read very much like JonBenet Ramsey's case.
  
It had some good twists and turns, but that ending was such a bummer. So anti-climatic. It was a non-ending. I thought I was missing a chapter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Grief, Child death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Miscarriage, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, and Stalking

atalea's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Dementia

Moderate: Kidnapping, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Murder, Death, Infidelity, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, Infertility, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

maggiejean's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Child death, and Mental illness

Minor: Infidelity

daithy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

So many plot twists, every time I thought I had it figured out,  I was wrong lol
It's well written... this would have got 5 stars,  but leaving it open ended bothers me.  I really hope there's a sequel! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Dementia, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Suicide

xkeyla17's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This is giving Pretty Little Liars in the sense that a lot of things are going on that came out of nowhere and the ending is just... not it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Physical abuse

karyan1'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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Dementia, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Drug use, and Infidelity

stephanieluxton's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Pedophilia, Blood, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Stalking

Minor: Animal cruelty, Violence, Suicide, Sexual content, and Animal death

mollywill's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

2.5

I was going to rate this book higher but the ending

Spoiler

(or should I say non-ending)

totally ruined it for me.

Spoiler

It felt like the author didn’t know how to wrap things up & wanted to avoid being accused of being cliché so she threw in a cliffhanger, but it comes off as lazy.

The plot twists weren’t anything special (I could see a number of them coming) and the book overall just left me disappointed. It was a fine read but there are better options in this genre.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Domestic abuse, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Abortion and Miscarriage

annaofjesup's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Grief, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Infertility