Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Come Closer by Sara Gran

56 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Murder

judassilver's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Infidelity, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Sexual content

bellisk's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Blood

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Violence

itsjustgrumpy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Dark, sick and heart breaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Homophobia, and Murder

Minor: Addiction and Excrement

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

2.5

I started reading this, paused for whatever reason, and accidentally forgot about it. Oops 😬

The choices… incomprehensible.

Amanda easily accepts that she’s being possessed and doesn’t really try to get rid of Naamah until it’s beyond too late. She didn’t think any of the warning signs (that she was VERY aware of) were weird and is  just passively aware that her body is now being used for theft, adulterous sex, murder. Just shrugs that shit off. The scariest aspect of this is slowly losing yourself and all control of your life. Which is terrifying!!! But for a demonic possession story, you just expect more. That being said, her last thoughts before unknowingly killing Ed— so sad.

There really was no other way this little book could have ended though. But Amanda’s reason thrown in on the very last page felt so last minute, it didn’t match the entirety of the story for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Child abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Outing, and Classism

it literally opens with a slur

jully_bean'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

ilaxaria's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infidelity, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Vomit

Minor: Sexual assault and Alcohol

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Sexual content, Vomit, and Abandonment

torismazarine's review

dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

takecoverbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

Come Closer is a deeply unsettling book that not only convincingly captures the horror of demonic possession but also provides an alarming analysis of how quickly intimate relationships can fall apart as we become more alienated and more fragmented in our thought processes. Despite the potent metaphor at the core of the book, it’s also a damn good horror story that will leave you unsettled and more than a little unsure of your own sanity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Rape