Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Twisted Lies by Ana Huang

4 reviews

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

dark lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This one took a little bit to get into but once I did, I really enjoyed the love story peppered with violence and crime and mystery. I adore all of the female characters in this book and their slightly less than moral men. This book kept me up far later than I should’ve been because it was addictive and interesting. The spice takes awhile to show up and is only moderate but I still enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Dementia, Grief, Sexual assault, Murder, Classism, Medical content, Stalking, Violence, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Vomit

destinynichole11's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Chronic illness, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Kidnapping, Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Stalking, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, and Violence

I think this book was by far the best in the series it had a stronger more intriguing plot. There was more depth and detail to it.

pageafter_paige's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

The Twisted series really hasn’t missed! I enjoyed this one a lot and found Stella’s anxiety pretty relatable. This book made me wanna date a billionaire SO BAD (if you’re my bf reading this then just ignore that last sentence 😉). I thought this book had great plot and sub-plots. This definitely wasn’t my favorite book of the series but I really loved Stella, and Christian was a perfect example of morally gray! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, and Stalking

ka_ke's review

dark funny medium-paced

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

3.0

Probably my least favourite of the 4 books in the Twisted series. A) Why does everyone end up engaged/married/pregnant? It doesn’t add anything to the story. B)There is no spice until you reach 60% of the way through C) Stella’s stalker could have been given a perspective and it would have improved the book.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Kidnapping, Dementia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child abuse and Abandonment