Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Girls by Lisa Jewell

11 reviews

ashleysager's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual content, Child abuse, Infidelity, and Self harm

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

sare1125's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Child death

reading_binosaur's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

By the middle you can get an idea of what happened to Grace, but there’s still plenty of twists that keep you on the edge of your seat. 

Really puts into perspective who you want to be around your kids. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, and Infidelity

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

emory's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

Felt more like a 250 page set up for the

'it was the poor neglected sociopathic child all along!'

plot twist than an actual story that someone wanted to tell or that anyone wanted to hear. The whole subplot about the husband also just annoyed the hell out of me for so many reasons. Weird ending and an even weirder takeaway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Ableism

Minor: Pedophilia

a_alves00's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Sexual content

teaofleaves's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Child death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Pedophilia

chelseamayxxx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

I love the way Lisa Jewell writes a book and gets the reader hooked on the book from the very 1st page to the last page. I loved all the characters in this book even the bad characters. I loved how the story line was told in different parts so you got a clear picture of what happens in the book all the way though. The ending could of been done a bit better but that’s the only part that let me down really. Xx 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Mental illness

pippamillerxoxo_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Suicide

dalmavatai's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-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? Yes

3.75

Unsurprisingly, I really enjoyed my fourth Lisa Jewell and she's absolutely become a go-to mystery/thriller writer for me! The characters and their relationships are well developed and interesting to read about, and you feel for each one of these characters in the Garden. I liked the past mystery interwoven with the present one, and enjoyed that we get multiple POVs, mostly from Adele and Clare but also from Pip and Grace, and we also get to see the letters Pip writes to their dad which were really sweet and heartfelt. 

I do wish the pacing had been done a bit differently, there was a LOT of setup, much of which was needed, but maybe it could've been shortened just a tad bit so that we could've gotten more at the end. I liked the resolution though, and especially enjoyed the way that we kept going back and forth between the past and the present towards the end which created a really frantic atmosphere where you just wanted to get to the truth. 

It was a bit slow paced, especially in the first half, which is why I didn't enjoy it as much as I could've but honestly this book made me really excited to get to more of Lisa Jewell's backlist!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Sexual assault

chandle5's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Minor: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Infidelity