Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Der Fremde am Strand by Lisa Jewell

10 reviews

akschafer's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

candaaaace's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Violence

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol

nat00_'s review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Kidnapping and Classism

cnannery19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

aas's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

embelle's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

2.0

The mystery of the book was okay, and I did find myself flipping the pages wanting to find out what occurred and how the different storylines connected. But, most of the characters were incredibly annoying to me, doing and thinking things that made no sense at all given what was happening in the story. Also, lots of the dialogue was so incredibly awkward/stilted, to the point of being cringeworthy at many points throughout the book, that I kept being taken out of the story by it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Torture, and Stalking

clara_017's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

I devoured the book. It was incredible. It consisted of short, exciting chapters that made you want to keep reading. The story takes place in several places at the same time, so some chapters are written from a different perspective than others. In addition, there is an important story in the past which is also told in several chapters. Normally it bothers me when so much happens at the same time in a book and there is a jump in time, but in this book by Lisa Jewell it didn't bother me at all. The book is very mysterious from the beginning and I couldn't stop reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

crosberg's review against another edition

dark 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

alexxm13'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

4.0

4 stars, this book is literally just a warning to people to not trust strangers even if they are beautiful and rich

as it turns out mark is a psycho who killed kirsty as she was not honest about love and lied as she didn’t know what else to do, also yes it did make me mad that her parents just let her be with a 19 year old stranger even tho she is 15 and has no experience before with relationships and on a holiday where u don’t know anyone who lives there at the beach. also lily not knowing mark/carl was a psycho and just married him within a short amount of time? and alice just inviting a complete stranger to ur house and as her kids say he could be a killer? the only character who was quite sensible was gray/frank and his qualities of looking after his sister and protecting her but that just leads to the death of his dad after him trying to swim out to sea to get kirsty from mark trying to drown her out at sea.

this comes 2nd fav out of the 3 lisa jewel books i’ve read as it wasn’t that confusing compared to “the family upstairs”. the only thing why i didn’t like this more than “and then she was gone” was that this was predictable with

kirsty being in danger and mark being sketchy perv but i did think carl was gray but i was wrong which is good or else i would hate gray which i don’t just fuck mark!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, and Sexual harassment