Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

5 reviews

moonknigt's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Torture, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Suicide, Vomit, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, and Animal cruelty

kat_rowlen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

This book is short to begin with but could have been at least 150 pages shorter. Nothing happened for the first 95% of the book (I track my pages so that’s accurate) the ending was twisty and surprising, but wasn’t really worth enduring the first half of the book. I was comparing this book to Sharp Objects and it doesn’t hold a candle to it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Rape, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Torture, Pregnancy, Blood, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Incest, Child death, and Drug use

keijiwolf's review against another edition

dark mysterious

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

kostas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

emilyharmonica's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Vomit