Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

El sótano by Natasha Preston

28 reviews

abbyd's review against another edition

The pacing was all over the place. I couldn’t get behind any of the characters or their motivations. Honestly the first chapter creeped me out and I wanted to put it down then, but kept going and now I wish I’d have just left it on the bookstore shelf 🤷‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Kidnapping

Minor: Stalking

chelseaabu1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

meaghankmc's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Some important plot points were brushed over and the book got repetitive at times which was a little boring, but overall I was rooting for Summer and the other girls.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Mental illness and Rape

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

anjh's review against another edition

i felt so uncomfortable and dirty reading this, as if i was there with the girls. Clover is completely utterly revolting and disgusting and everything he thinks and says just shows how sick of a person he is. the book was so gripping but i just didn’t want to subject myself to the harm of continuing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Death of parent

anika_tureson's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The book was super fun to read and always wanted you to go back and keep reading. Its tense and shocking with some things that happen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Gaslighting

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

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

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Sexism and Stalking

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: Physical abuse and Blood

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

Minor: Death

amareenicole11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

I wasn't a big fan of this one.. it wasn't very unique and the plot was very similar to other books in this genre. Nothing really stood out - but don't get me wrong. The storyline is sick and disturbing and completely repulsive, especially since things like this happen. It isn't rare that these situations occur and these monsters exist.

I just felt like the writing in this was poorly executed and I didn't really feel anything. It was disturbing but the only detailed parts were the graphic scenes. It was very repetitive and had way too many grammatical errors and misspelled words.. 
I get the novel was written on Wattpad, but some editing definitely needed to be done. 

There were also some parts that were left unexplained and kind of had a huge build up only not to be brought up again. It needed more details, more development, more umph... it was lacking a lot. It had a lot of potential and the story was good enough to keep me reading, it just needed more to get a higher rating from me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder