Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell

32 reviews

chloejane13's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

sydvaldez's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

morgbb's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

bookwormofinsta's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Self harm and Medical trauma

reading_binosaur's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

By the middle you can get an idea of what happened to Grace, but there’s still plenty of twists that keep you on the edge of your seat. 

Really puts into perspective who you want to be around your kids. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

butilikeit's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Abandonment

shannonc8299's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

emory's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

Felt more like a 250 page set up for the

'it was the poor neglected sociopathic child all along!'

plot twist than an actual story that someone wanted to tell or that anyone wanted to hear. The whole subplot about the husband also just annoyed the hell out of me for so many reasons. Weird ending and an even weirder takeaway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Pedophilia

minimicropup's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

Atmosphere: 👌 This story couldn’t have taken place anywhere else. The park and surrounding homes were a vital character, and the scenes brought to life so well - both for the environment and how people let their guard down in such familiar, communal settings. 

Main POVs: 👌
-a parent with a 12 and 13 year old who is kind but distracted and exhausted, dealing with the hospitalization of their spouse who has paranoid schizophrenia
-a parent with one preteen and two teens who is well-meaning in homeschooling and insulating their family from the world, but results in them letting their guard down and missing glaring red flags. They are lenient with the hopes of their children growing up to be unashamedly their true selves…but they have never considered if those true selves may be rotten ones
-a 12 year old younger sibling who is observant, intuitive, and unfailingly loyal to their family but suspicious of strangers

Reading Journey: 👌
Riding through the neighbourhood in a golf cart on a crisp, relaxing summer day. 

Show’n’tell: 👌 Perfect show - I wasn’t just in the characters heads I briefly became them. Includes a little map of the park and houses. 

Great match if you like:
-neighbourhood mysteries
-dark cozy mystery 
-coming-of-age drama
-nostalgic summer energy
-people giving off creepy vibes behind closed doors
-teens behaving badly

Vibes: 🙂😲🤭

Format: Kindle Unlimited

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug use, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

Medical content is related to diabetes and paranoid schizophrenia. Adult/minor relationships are inferred and suspected

but only one occurs and it is not sexual or graphically described

. Drug use involves experimentation and overdose

including fatal

. Fire is of a house and related to schizophrenia and touches on

loss of irreplaceable items, charring of the home, is visited once, but no loss of life or human/animal injury

. Sexual content is

between 13 year olds experimenting and is not assault or forced

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haleybre's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship