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His & Hers by Alice Feeney

41 reviews

tuxedocat's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

A slow start but wow it was worth it. I didn't see it coming, each chapter spun my whole thought process and I was hooked. 
I really enjoyed how it was written from multiple points of view and how they sometimes overlapped. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Physical abuse, Stalking, Terminal illness, Death, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Child death, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Rape, Suicide, and Body shaming

kay_reads_books6's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

I really really thought I knew who the killer was but nope. Not even close. This book had me on my toes, from beginning to end, through every twist that kept happening.

This story is told from 3 POVs: His (Jack's), Her's, and the truth (the mysterious killer).

I reread each POV that was the killer's 3 times each to make sure my guess of the killer was probably correct. It still wasn't. Alice Feeney did an excellent job at keeping you guessing.

This book gives me weird, sex cult Heather's vibes but grown up in a mystery thriller book. I honestly think that's the best way to describe this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Bullying, Gore, Murder, Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Dementia, Drug use, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Body horror, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, and Animal cruelty

pageafter_paige's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.5

I really enjoyed reading this book A LOT! I loved the dual POV and the time stamps for each chapter. I also really liked how there were chapters sprinkled in where we didn’t know who’s POV it was, we could only speculate. 

While I liked reading the book, I wasn’t obsessed with the ending. When I was reading I was trying to figure out the big twist, and I feel like my prediction would’ve been a better story line. But I really didn’t see all the smaller tiny twists that seemed to happen each chapter and that’s why I loved reading it! 

This was a really good one by Alice Feeney and she has slayed me once again! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Violence, Car accident, Classism, Grief, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Rape, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Vomit, Gun violence, Death of parent, Dementia, Sexual violence, Animal death, Body shaming, Infidelity, Abandonment, Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Stalking

sizzlesteaks's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Gore, Murder, Sexual violence, Suicide, Alcoholism, Blood, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Torture, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Stalking, Violence, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, Classism, Death, and Dementia

neen11's review

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Dementia, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

mtstjk's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Absolutely disturbing book, but never saw the plot twist coming

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Blood, Drug use, Murder, Rape, Self harm, and Stalking

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Child death, Death, Dementia, Eating disorder, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, and Self harm

frannienhi's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Toxic friendship, and Eating disorder

icieri's review

mysterious tense medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Dementia, Infidelity, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Death, Rape, Addiction, and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

carlys_currently_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual content, and Gore

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Animal cruelty

collinsd's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child death, Death, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Infidelity, Rape, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Stalking, and Drug abuse

Minor: Cancer, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

I have no words, would've given it 5 stars but damn

Spoiler

the 16th birthday scene in the woods and Zoe's animal cruelty was VILE also I'm sorry but why did Cat have to die?? Like it was just a job Anna could've gotten another one if she was that good at her old one Cat just wanted to go back to work she probably didnt even know Anna was cheating with Richard, her poor daughters :(

there were a lot of twists and turns and while I had the tiniest inkling who the killer was it seemed a bit far-fetched but still kudos to Alice Feeney for writing another engaging book and making me look at every mentioned character with doubt and suspicion.