Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Girl Before by JP Delaney

40 reviews

willow_21_05's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

The plot. The characters. Just everything is amazing the characters development in this book is amazing. I would definately read this book again and would recommend to anyone who likes mystery books and books involving crime. In the beginning the switching between characters but I got used to this pretty quickly. If you cant get into the booktry watching the TV series (Dont know how good this is because ive only just started watching it). Overall this book was very good and there could have been a few more things to make it a 5 star read like when the characters say things it doesnt always have quotation marks and this was also confusing. It was very close to being a 5 star book but it wasnt one of my favourites but very close to it. The plot of the book just keeps getting thicker and thicker and there was always something being uncovered or trying to be figured out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy

georgieg's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, and Murder

katiehearn08's review

dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Miscarriage

charlotte2609's review against another edition

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

latham9's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Stalking

Minor: Abortion

timbookshelf's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Rape

savagekate89's review against another edition

mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Abortion

lindseyrenee's review

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, and Abortion

raysh3ll's review against another edition

dark mysterious

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

I wasn't a fan of this one. 

I read this book after I went through J.P Delaney's 3 other books. I think maybe I would have liked it a bit better if I hadn't had the others as a comparison. I felt like there was a fair bit of overlap and repetition in terms of what  J. P Delaney writes about in his books (children with disabilities, technology, unreliable narration, twist endings, unrealistic expectations etc). Maybe I over did it with his books, but I felt his other books did a much better job with the things that intersected.

I didn't really feel much for the characters, beyond finding myself annoyed by Emma.

Overall, it was just meh for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual content

herbertem1996's review

slow-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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Murder, and Pregnancy