Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

103 reviews

lgottfredson's review against another edition

emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Violence, Police brutality, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicide, Gun violence, Death of parent, Racial slurs, and Murder

josephsand's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Sexual assault, and Gun violence

maxx_'s review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infertility, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Medical content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Rape, Child abuse, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Transphobia and Deadnaming

devanyb21's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Body horror, Blood, Murder, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual harassment, Death, Mass/school shootings, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Infertility, Abortion, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

nicole_cob_reads's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Suicide, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Grief, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Physical abuse, Blood, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Gun violence

literaryliz's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Mass/school shootings, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Rape, Death of parent, and Gun violence

mallaidhsomo's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

3.75

VERY hard to read, not because it was difficult, but because it was so dark. If you want to read a book that makes you hate cis-men and small southern towns, I have the one for you. It's GRAPHIC and violent, and relentless. 

It's a good story, though.

My only other complaint is how wordy Slaughter tends to be. She describes everything in such detail and it feels unnecessary. Describing every movement taken to check an email on a phone is too much. This book could've used a good culling of extra prose. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Gun violence, and Misogyny

lordslag's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Murder

izkristajean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Abortion, Miscarriage, Rape, Mass/school shootings, Blood, Murder, Gun violence, and Death

egalligan's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

Well written with characters I liked. But man oh man was it a hard book to get through. What these characters went through is just awful and really challenging to read about, especially since the writing was so good. Almost too good, I felt I lived through the traumatic events. Some of the worst scenes are revisited/relived multiple times, I almost couldn't take it anymore. Really compelling characters though, which kept me going. Will be looking at more books by this author but not sure I can recommend this particular one given the traumatic plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Infertility, Death, Child death, Pedophilia, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Police brutality, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Terminal illness, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Infidelity, and Bullying

Minor: Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Ableism