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sargasso_c's review against another edition
- 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
3.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Abandonment
Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
books_unraveling's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness and Pregnancy
Moderate: Kidnapping
Minor: Child death
tentinybees's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
3.5
Graphic: Child death and Kidnapping
suneaters's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Her husband sucked so bad it was almost unbelievable if I didn’t already know most are worse. I liked the detective Harper character, but she slowly turned into just as annoying as everyone else.
Graphic: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Stalking, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
zosiablue's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy
natalya_c14's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, and Kidnapping
bxnnny's review against another edition
- 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
1.0
Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Dementia
tifftastic87's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
The author did a really good job of writing in a way that made me feel squeamish at the gore and medical, uncomfortable and tense with the antagonist, angry with the husband and anxious for the detective. The excerpts from fairy tales at the beginning of chapters was also a nice touch. The ending was another punch in the gut and to be fair, I wouldnt have had it different.
Graphic: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Dementia
Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Stalking, and Death of parent
syazahaniss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
I’ve long had biases against domestic thrillers because they mostly revolve around the same thing: “crazy” mother, disbelieving father and somehow a kid/kids are involved. The ending is usually similar as well in that everything is explained by the mother having postpartum psychosis or somewhere along that line.
I liked reading the story from DS Harper’s POV, because at least we’re not stuck inside the head of the “victim” all the time – from my experience, it does goes boring. On the other hand, I felt like some parts of the investigation surrounding Lauren’s case (Natasha, Betty) didn’t exactly get closure. It felt like there were some loose threads to the story.
On that same note, I couldn’t seem to get a good understanding of Lauren and Patrick’s relationship, especially towards the end.
Generally I felt that the ending could have been written better. Other than that, a pretty solid book in terms of plot.
Minor: Kidnapping
brookey8888's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Gaslighting