Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Flock by J. Todd Scott

1 review

daisystitch's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

A challenging but engrossing read, The Flock is a meditation on death, love, grief and loss, and the things humans will do to find community when at their lowest. Clearly based on real life cults, the story cleverly uses intercutting storylines and cutaway references to show the characters' different perspectives on the events of the past and present. 
There are a lot of names to keep track of, and this book was a little out of my comfort zone, but it was a fascinating read which will stay with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Torture, Grief, Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Incest, and Pandemic/Epidemic

I realised rather early on that the main pov character is an unreliable narrator, and this actually made me more intrigued by the story because I was never sure to what extent the apocalyptic "signs" were real, or exaggerated