Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

24 reviews

esterslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

halfbloodprincess_hogwarts's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Ugggggghhhh, the end was so fucked up🤢🤮 def a great read in time for the spooky month with a ton of suspense🤍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

veronica_angel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, and Car accident

liviapiz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

Moderate: Biphobia

luveloise3's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Drug abuse

joan_salder's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

First of all, this was 'the best book' of all Karen books I have read till now (only 2). The ending is mysterious, but the last sentence brings up a lot of thoughts to our mind.

It brought up the thought of Sarah sleeping with Peter, because that is the only way he would think of Ellery to be her daughter. Secondly, Sarah knew something which Sadie didn't and that is her and Peter's relationship, because if it was only homecoming queens getting kidnapped and murdered then there is no chance that Sarah might have suffered, because Sadie was the homecoming queen. I am literally so sorry to the characters I suspected because they were not guilty and I just had crazy thoughts. So, well, that is literally it.

I loved the plot set up and everything. I even liked Ryan Rodriguez and Ezra and Malcolm and Declan. Of course who doesn't. But beware of the choices you make...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Car accident, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Deadnaming, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

pastry's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Karen McManus just has a way with YA murder mysteries. I genuinely didn't guess who it was AT ALL, and where usually that might annoy me, the way it's done here is so good. It makes sense while at the same time, not being too glaringly obvious from the start. Impeccable.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Murder

gamora_zen1's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

julietthague's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

with their mom in rehab, the twins ellery and ezra have no choice but to move in with her grandmother which leads them from california to a small town near the canadian border.
but said town, echo ridge, has a troubled past of losing its homecoming queens with one disappearing in 1996 and another one being murdered just five years ago, both unsolved.
ellery soon will be closer to the true crime she loves than she'd like to be when the killer suddenly claims to be back.

it's official, i'm a karen mcmanus fan. in my opinion, 'two can keep a secret' is even better than her highly popular book 'one of us is lying'. fast paced, intense characters with great dynamics, mysterious, full of secrets waiting to get out, really(!) unexpected plottwists. short: insanely good.
i was so invested from the first page to the last, speculating about victims, suspects, motives, everything. yet the plot twists and ending did not fail to surprise me (especially that last sentence still haunts me 5 hours after i finished the book).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia

katie2108's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Car accident