Reviews tagging 'Death'

Saving Grace - Bis dein Tod uns scheidet by B.A. Paris

57 reviews

goobyworm23's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

The plot of the book is 5/5. It had such great potential to be a horrifying psychological thriller. 

Unfortunately, the writing was too…. Obvious? Cheesy? The writing just didn’t land for me - it made it seem like a low budget scary movie. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Gaslighting

wolfstvr28's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

One of the best books I've ever read. Definitely gonna buy it, one of my favorites!! Like read it!!! I promise you will not regret it! I even have the last bit of dialogue from this book memorized because it's so good and I recommend it to everyone I know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Death

Minor: Alcohol

peelemr's review against another edition

dark 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

Misogynist trauma porn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

mckinleyelle's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Gaslighting

leonasarah's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

☆ BOOK REVIEW ☆
  WOW! What can I say? This book definitely took me on a journey. It's taken the "Best read of the year" spot. A can't put down, psychological thriller!!
  When Grace meets the handsome gentleman Jack, who has it all, looks, wealth, achievement, manners and respectability, she thinks that life has finally given her all that she has ever dreamed of..... But behind closed doors, Jack is worse than her worst nightmare. 
  This book definitely gives you shivers down your spine!! Highly recommend this book! 
  ⚠️ PLZ NOTE THERE ARE THINGS IN THIS STORY THAT COULD BE VERY TRIGGERING ⚠️
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

kermities's review against another edition

dark tense 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

2.75

Overall a quick and easy read. The main character was insufferable. The very last pages pushed it to a 2.75 instead of the initial 2.5 rating I wanted to give. 
The plot and dynamics of the story is quite good. I really didn't like any of the characters as I found most of the cartoonish at times. 
Would not read again nor recommend. 
Perfect read for a beach holiday if you want something light and quick but that still gets your heart racing a bit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Domestic abuse

jmontagna's review against another edition

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

mecmccann's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Behind Closed Doors was a better version of the same tropes in The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden. In this book, we follow a young girl who meets and quickly marries who she thinks is the man of her dreams. But on their wedding day, her sister and bridesmaid who has downs syndrome falls down the stairs and breaks her leg. They proceed with the wedding, and her new husband turns on her. He confides that it isn't her that he wants, its her sister. (though it's not clear what for. He said this in the same breath as "having sex with you was cumbersome and I didn't want to do it," so I think he wanted to assault her). He locks her in a room, he takes all her money, he starves her and tortures her. 

It's dark. I don't mind darkness, in fact, I typically like a psychological horror/thriller book. However, this was too straightforward and lacked any suspense. And this main character was not getting that he wanted to rape her disabled sister and put off getting out of the situation until the absolute last second. Is that where the suspense was? I didn't love this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

tinkerbell2706's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Completely fell in love with this book finished it in one day, could not put it down! The characters are so well written and I can’t stop reading the last 5 pages! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Gaslighting

mirandalikesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? No

3.5

A quick and easy read! Would be great for a flight or a rainy day.

I thought I was settling in for something a little meatier. In my opinion, the story introduced the conflict right away and didn't do much to surprise the reader throughout.

However, I did like Millie's role in the plot - she was more clever than people wanted to give her credit for. I also liked the battle of wills between Jack and Grace. The "who will win" of it all kept me reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Infertility and Forced institutionalization