Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

218 reviews

stories's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

New mysteries, higher and more dangerous stakes, more players, many who are objecting to the game, and more shitty money-seekers in the woodwork. And more secrets, of course. 

Honestly, more like the stakes and tensions I expected of book 1 from the blurb. 

Bots are still pretty 1D and interchangeable, but whatever. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

spacecadetlav's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-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? No

3.0

The writing is a bit juvenile, even though I love YA. It’s difficult to buy into this world, but I found the romance to be the most engaging part of this story. I liked where the mystery went, whereas the previous installment of this series I didn’t care for the puzzle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Kidnapping

kmdowling90's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious tense 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death of parent and Murder

ma_fer's review against another edition

challenging lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping and Death of parent

Minor: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, and Fire/Fire injury

mossywossy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

It's definitely more active than the first book, the connections between the characters is explored a lot more and I absolutely love that! My favorite part is "I'm not a bad man" after what he did and planned to do LMFAO it was so funny

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gun violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Miscarriage

justagirlwithbooks's review against another edition

4.0

 “The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.”

Oh my gosh, this was so good! The twists and turns this book had left me GAGGED.

Also, I listened to the audiobook for this one, and it was really funny to hear the Hawthorne's accents. The whole Tobey II is Harry thing was WILD and I was here for it! And Sheffield... bro. That's all I'm gonna say.

This book was better than the first one, because more things were getting answered here, and the mystery kept getting deeper. I'm excited to see how this all ends!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

ladybug12793's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Disappointing

Reading this was like pulling teeth. Where the first book was fast-paced and fun, this one dragged on. Nothing happens except for a bunch of filler until the last 15% of the book with ridiculous plot twists.

I don’t even want to get into the “love triangle” with the wet blanket brothers. Absolutely no chemistry between any of them. Again, like the first book, I felt no emotional connection towards these characters.

Since this book was so underwhelming, I don’t think I will continue on in the series. 

0 🌶️ 

* please disregard grammatical errors due to voice texting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Cursing and Infidelity

Cursing- A**hole is said like 2-3 times. That’s it.

mahi__'s review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

The first half was boring, but it picks up near the end. The ending kind of didn’t make sense though. At least to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping

nina_bookkura's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Kidnapping

katie_345's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Good book 📚 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy