Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

6 reviews

wackly93's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Grief, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Violence, Kidnapping, Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Physical abuse

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Stalking, Car accident, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Body horror, Gaslighting, Gore, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Abandonment, Miscarriage, Infidelity, and Abortion

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Vomit, Alcoholism, Excrement, and Animal death

laurenzott's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Kidnapping

Moderate: Pregnancy and Animal death

hayleyvharrington's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Abortion, Bullying, Stalking, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

literary__mary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

This book had lots of elements of a standard thriller and did a great job of building suspense. I wanted to keep reading just to see what would happen. The story unfolds through multiple POVs, switching between present and past tense. I found that some of the POVs were pretty underdeveloped, as well as a few of the characters or relationships between characters. I also found some of the plot twists or major reveals a little disappointing. Although I didn't see some of them coming, some of them just literally didn't make sense based on the person's character or didn't fit logically in the plot, which really irked me. This is the main reason I can't give it a higher rating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse and Car accident

Minor: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Animal death

Spoiler

The medical trauma/SA portion comes into play through a male gynecologist character who mistreats a lot of his patients. A lot of the scenes with him in them made me super uncomfy, and I'm not sure how necessary to the plot they are.

Spoiler

xandraj's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Self harm

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Vomit, Excrement, Stalking, and Suicide