Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos

4 reviews

hyena's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping and Stalking

junefish's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Child death, Classism, Biphobia, Alcohol, Addiction, and Gun violence

Minor: Confinement, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

emily_mh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

2.0

I did not enjoy reading this at all. The book lacks clarity on what it wants to do and say - there are so many content warnings but little effort to explore the issues raised by them. Information is covered up to make the main character more mysterious, then revealed within the first 100 pages. And within that first 100 pages, pretty much all that happened in terms of investigation was that two of the main characters found out two girls are missing, not one, which is in the blurb of the book (which in fact makes clear that more than two girls are missing). It was SO. SLOW. I honestly could not tell you what most of the pages in this book were dedicated to, because it wasn't plot. The only reason this isn't one star is because

the bones of the mystery were good (i.e. a serial killer and victims close to the MC) - their execution, not so much

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Murder, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Torture, Child abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Death of parent, Ableism, Blood, Drug use, Cancer, Sexual content, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Racism, Gore, Infidelity, Vomit, Rape, Sexism, Dementia, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Pregnancy, Bullying, and Eating disorder

rbookish's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

kind of a bad book, but not terrible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Bullying, Dementia, Drug use, Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

the mc went to a conversion camp