Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall

7 reviews

lilacs_book_bower's review against another edition

• 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

3.0

Not sure whether this one will stick with me or not.  Decent mystery, some nice twists.  Not a waste of time, but nothing I would re-read or go out of my way to recommend to people.  One or two things felt a little unfinished or just dropped at the end.  I tend to prefer KAM's YA horror books, which I highly recommend.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Body shaming, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Violence

erinvasut's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Car accident, Gun violence, Police brutality, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Biphobia, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Chronic illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

shesflippinpages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Car accident, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Stalking, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Murder, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma

Minor: Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Cancer, Homophobia, Animal cruelty, Police brutality, Vomit, Addiction, Body shaming, Infertility, Outing, Car accident, and Eating disorder

flaminggecko's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death of parent, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Grief, Abandonment, Animal death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Murder, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Police brutality, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Abortion and Cancer

soobooksalot's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

First BOTM of the year, done! And what a great one.
 No One Can Know is the second book I've read of Kate Alice Marshall's, and I enjoyed it even more than the first.
 Emma, Juliette, Daphne - then and now.
 The Palmer sisters lost their parents to a shooting in their childhood home while having a sleepover in their treehouse. 
 The town of Arden Hills, in residents' collective minds, suspected Emma was guilty. 
 When Emma returns to the stately home with (repellent, yuck) husband Nathan, secrets will not stay in the past.
 This is one of those thrillers where I suspected everyone at one time or another, but the reveals still ended up being twisty and surprising.
 Recommended!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Car accident, Gun violence, Infidelity, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Murder

oliviamich's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Body shaming

morethanmylupus's review

mysterious 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

3.0

This was a decent thriller for me. A lot of the "twists" were super predictable for me, but I liked meeting the characters and the peeling back of what happened in the past vs. what is happening in the current day of the story. Some of the characters' actions seemed strange to me, but I chalked that up to the lingering effects of major childhood trauma. All that being said, no matter how down on my luck I was, I don't know if I could ever bear to move into the house where my abusive parents were murdered, but that's the whole premise of the book so I kind of just ran with it.

 

A huge thank you to the author and the publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, and Murder