Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Marionettes by Katie Wismer

2 reviews

puffins57's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

I picked this book up on a recommendation that it was a good fall read and I’m quite glad I did. It has vampires and witches and mysteries perfect for spooky season. The only issue I had with this book was that I felt it rushed through some conflicts extremely quickly. Immediately back-to-back, Valerie goes from a wendigo attack to being captured and tortured by Russians to killing Connor. Even the time she was captured went extremely quickly. While I’m sure the author was using this a was to plant seeds that are going to continue to grow in the upcoming books, I still wish she had chosen to focus a little more time on maybe two of these events than cramming all three in or just making the book a bit longer. That being said, I did enjoy this book and plan on immediately starting the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Classism

shark012's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, and Classism