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Wenn sie wüsste by Freida McFadden

107 reviews

mikathereviewer's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This author has lots of potential. She is good in writing plot twists and in depicturing a stomach turning vibe. I had for the most part actually fun reading and was interested to see where things were going. Also loved how the author made me switch theories every once in a while as the foreshadowing was way more subtle than other authors and that the foreshadowing included misleading us on purpose. I thought at first the plot twist will be too obvious due to it, but it made me notice that it was something completely different. 

Unfortunately I knew ALL plot twists before they were even revealed. The soonest theory I had that was true was at the prologue already. We have a total of 61 chapters for the record. The foreshadowing is very very bad. Way too obvious and it made me feel disappointed.
I also didn't like ANY character, as they all had flaws (which is an understatement) I just couldn't but despise them. 

Things I disliked

1. MC acting and being a whore
(Sleeping with a married husband and having the hots for EVERY male character mentioned)

Reference 1: "And most of all, to have a husband like Andrew. To have him press his lips against mine the way he did to hers. To feel his body heat against my chest…"
Reference 2: "Truthfully, I prefer Andrew’s looks, and of course, there’s the language barrier. But maybe having a little fun with Enzo would be good for me. It would relieve a little of that pent-up energy, and maybe I would stop having wholly inappropriate fantasies about my boss’s husband."
Reference 3: "and the actor playing the lead is dreamy.
Although I can’t help but think he’s not quite as handsome as Andrew."

2. MC sexually assaulting someone else (which gets even funnier as she apparently was against such and killed someone who tried touching her friend without allowance)

Reference: I can do this—language of love, all that. “A break.” I reach out, place my hand on his chest, and raise an eyebrow suggestively. “You know.”
I had expected at this point, he would grin at me, scoop me off my feet, and carry me up to the attic, where he would ravish me for hours. What I did not expect is the way his eyes darken. He leaps away from me like my hand is on fire and lets loose with a string of rapid, angry Italian. I have no idea what he’s saying, aside from the fact that he’s not saying “hello” or “thank you.”
“I… I’m so sorry,” I say helplessly.
“Sei pazzo!” he yells at me. He rakes a hand through his black hair. “Che cavolo!”

And before someone tells me that this isn't sexual assault. First of all the gender DOES NOT matter and secondly touching in any way without permission is assault, if you want it or not. And due to his response he DIDN'T like it.

3.The language barrier being depictured as no problem and even 'attractive'

Reference: "He doesn’t even speak English.”
“I’m okay with that,” Suzanne says. “Hell, that might be a plus.”"

I dislike it due to being able to speak to someone especially the common ways of telling someone to stop or to just express emotions in general is very important for any relationship. Saying language barrier is good means being ok that one can't express themselves freely or not even caring for it, which means either just using someone for a quickie or actually harassing them and having an excuse for 'not knowing that they didn't like it'

4. Me not wanting to DNF this book due to the

infidelity

- It triggered me a lot and I was angry for the MC to be depictured as a

wh0re

and even now that I finished the book I won't change my mind. I hated Millie. 
Also, no matter how much you dislike or even hate someone, there is the rule to NEVER

sleep with a married man

. So the excuse that she hated Nina was nothing but an excuse. That's not how it should be done.

Leave your fingers at yourself!

5. Nina
- Even though she was

the victim

all along she was literally using the excuse that due to Millie having

a prison history she can suffer with Andrew

. Also used the excuse that Millie didn't need to take the bait and could have just ignored it.

Nina manipulated Millie to do it

. And then in the end she

sacrifices herself

just so that we won't hate the character. I still dislike her. 
I didn't like ANY character in this book. 

6. Stupid explanation or even stupid characters

- Millie didn't know basic Italian which I know most people do and there is no way she didn't know that Hola was Spanish

- Millie needs to google how long someone needs to dehydrate as if she never learnt that in school (or she is so stupid and forgot even though that's BASIC KNOWLEDGE)

- "Also, keep your eyes open. Or it won’t count." 
That's not true, pepper stray can hurt extremely much even with closed eyes. just that one can get blind when they keep their eyes open.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Pregnancy

chaterbox87's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lily_sutton's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infertility, and Torture

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

_pauline'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

4.0

this was INTENSE

I read this in one sitting and absolutely loved the first half, thought I‘d give it 5 stars

(I also really liked andrew at first, look how that turned out)

. after that, it was mainly

torture (not the reading but the content of the book)

, plus there were a lot of scenes that made me want to scream at the characters DONT BE STUPID JUST DO …, and while I didn’t always enjoy that, I still couldn’t put the book down. 

one police officer being able to simply close such a suspicious case seems unrealistic but ig it doesn’t really matter

I definitely get the hype and would recommend this if you don’t mind the content warnings. the plot twists are great. not sure I‘ll read the sequels any time soon but I‘ll definitely check out other books by this author 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, and Death of parent

andieobrien99's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is my second Frieda book and all I can say is wow! What a twist! I can honestly say I didn’t see it coming! 
Can’t wait to read the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

sydlexi's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

bones008's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

the foreshadowing was very blatant but it was a surprise twist

with Nina actually being a victim and Andrew being abusive

I found that at times i didn’t want to read anymore because it was the same situation over and over (now i understand it was to drive home how the main character was feeling but it annoyed me) then other points i couldn’t put it down.  It felt pretty stereotypical for the characteristics of every main character, like the stuck up PTA moms and the foreign gardener who doesn’t speak english. I would say this book was exciting for the revenge aspects and a good set up for the series, but i won’t be finishing the series. The author writes in a very easy to digest way while still keeping the descriptions detailed enough; i just find that this book didn’t make me feel good. It was like it was dark for the purpose of shock or to be dark while the happy endings were glossed over. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Sexual assault and Blood

mal_dale's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.25

It was like fine. It was slow for like the first 60% of the book (all of Part 1) and then overall it was just so predictable. 

It was also aggravating because Millie kept making stupid decisions (until the ending) and Nina could've done things way better than what she did. The best part was when Millie basically made him kill himself, like finally something smart and she popped off! Although, once again Nina was freaking rude as shit for just like putting another woman in that position in the first place. Lastly, I knew that mother was the one who instilled this in him from the moment we met that bitch (hence her ending comments to Nina were not a surprise). I'm glad I read the book but probably won't read the second one....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Forced institutionalization

readwithsophsx's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sierraclimbs's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I hate read this book… it was my choice for book club this month so I felt obligated to finish it. But boy did I not enjoy this book. I definitely seem to be in the minority, so I’m glad it’s working for most people. 

I saw the main “twist” from the first 50pgs. I did not appreciate people thinking with their sex drive rather than their brain. The ending was so convoluted & unrealistic. I have so many tabs throughout the entire book noting things that make no sense (to me). 

I dunno… I’m sad it didn’t work for me because so many people love it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Child abuse, Infertility, and Blood