Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

El sótano by Natasha Preston

32 reviews

sammirosewater's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Pedophilia and Adult/minor relationship

abbycohen03's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

3.75

Every chapter had you glued to the book wanting to read another chapter

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Trafficking, Violence, Emotional abuse, Death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Vomit, and Adult/minor relationship

courtneybrooke's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

bubblepricks's review against another edition

dark 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? No

2.0

I finished this book in a couple hours, I do not feel like it was “slow paced” as it’s categorized. I hated reading from Lewis’s perspective, he’s super boring- but I also get why his perspective was important to the story. It was fine, I guess? 
I wish that for such a *heavy* plot it had a little more character development & soul. It felt more like reading someone else’s story about a horrible thing than actually feeling it from inside the cellar- from the girl’s perspectives. Like there was so much blood, gore, assault, & shock value on top that it didn’t bother diving any deeper. I wanna know more about the girls, we get summer’s perspective of living with them for nearly a full year & still know almost nothing about them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Gaslighting, Vomit, Murder, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Stalking

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Violence, Mental illness, Rape, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Suicide

Minor: Stalking and Sexism

reisnerej's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.5

This book went back and forth so much of going fast and then extremely slow. The ending also seemed very rushed and that they skipped details where as some of the details earlier on in the book could have been skipped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Physical abuse

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Death, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Minor: Death

brynleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Blood, Death, Murder, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual content

katleyn16's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Violence, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Torture, and Emotional abuse

rachelwierick's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

2.75

Not very well written, but entertaining. I really just wanted to know if the guy got caught and how. Had a realistic ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Murder

unprepossesin's review against another edition

dark fast-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? No

2.75

the book is definitely what it is- a wattpad story on paper. It is fast paced, barely details, and unable to get attached to most characters. It could have been edited a bit better, details couldve been fed to the audience instead of thrown together. I definitely feel like it is half baked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Incest, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Rape, Death, Physical abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Misogyny, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Grief, Pedophilia, and Mental illness

is it worth a read? i would say if you are bored