Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

I Found You by Lisa Jewell

10 reviews

dev921's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, Cursing, Drug use, Rape, Alcoholism, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, and Death

ynaiita_5896's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

🦚 Single mom Alice opens her home to a man she encounters at the beach, off the coast of Yorkshire. He is going through a fugu state not knowing his identify, name or how he got there. Near London, Lily, a young wife from the Ukraine panics when her new husband does not come home from work. After she learns about his fake pass ort from the local police, she begins to search for him and for answers as to why he suddenly abandoned her.

🦚 This like most of Lisa Jewell's thrillers is bingeable, unputdownable and full of suspense. I particularly love this book because it has so much heart amidst the tense and thrilling context. The two FMCs are so different but also similar whereby they are both strong and resilient women. The multiple POVs were all easy-to-follow and flow together really well — answering questions along the way without spoiling the overall mystique and suspense of the story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Grief, Murder, Child abuse, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug use, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, and Violence

nat00_'s review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Classism and Kidnapping

cnannery19's review against another edition

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

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Drug use, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Child death, Eating disorder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Blood, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Rape, Death, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Murder, and Physical abuse

tamara_joy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Murder, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Confinement, Alcohol, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Sexual assault

aas's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

minimicropup's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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

Intricate. Admiring. Unreserved. 

 

We follow a cast of characters, mainly focused on a Ukrainian who moved to the UK after marrying their spouse, a single parent raising three kids in a small cottage, a person at a loss for memories drawn to the beach, and a protective teenage sibling on vacation with their family. 

🇬🇧 Set over the summer in the fictional seaside vacation town of Ridinghouse Bay, UK in the 1990s and current times (2010s). 

 

🎙️ Excellent narration. The narrator brings the story to life and it wasn’t difficult to discern all the characters. 

 

🐺🐕 Growls, Howls, and Tail Wags: 

👌 Much of the suspense comes from figuring out the connection between the different times and characters. Impressively, it wasn't confusing, even with audio alone. It flowed well and connected in a natural and fascinating way to me. 

👍 This is definitely more of a character driven story, so if you hate them all or don’t care, it could be a slog. I loved it because they mysteries are subtle, evenly paced, and never boring - at any given time I was doubtful about a person while also feeling sympathetic toward them and that was refined as the story progressed. For example, wondering if someone was a reluctant hero or fugitive on the run. 

 

👌 Brilliantly descriptive, but not overly detailed writing with realistic dialogue and multifaceted characters that are all well developed. They are unique (not tropey) but also recognizable. 

 

🤷‍♀️ Amateur sleuthing is good, not overly contrived. Except at the end it started to get a bit restless for me. It took little turn where characters decided not to involve the police, there was some convenient journalism, and it’s not bad, it just broke the suspense and story for me a little bit.

 

😨 So for the most part I was thinking there was a juicy story here - did someone have a double life? Are they a jerk or really a sweetie? Lots of predictions along the way but the story took an unexpected turn at one point (to me). Without saying how or why, it led to a descriptive, disturbing attempted rape scene. Def check content warnings it was a tough read (or listen) but not gratuitous. 

 

Mood Reading Match Up: 

• Contemporary fiction about uncovering the mystery of a character’s past due to amnesia/memory loss 
• Mysterious stranger with a past romance 
• Missing person, true crime energy with amateur sleuthing 
• Seaside summer vibes 

 

Content Heads-Up: Physical abuse. Adult/minor relationship. Obsession. Kidnapping, confinement. Sexual content (consentual). Sexual assault, attempted rape (on page, descriptive). Murder. Death of a parent, death of a child. Amnesia, dissociative fugue, memory loss. Medical (heart attack). 

 

Format: Scribd Audio 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Confinement, and Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Stalking

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Sexual content

rosereadsalot's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Rape, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

gtrue21's review against another edition

3.0

I listened to this whole audiobook and still don’t really understand how this story is connected 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Toxic relationship, Rape, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

alexxm13's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

4 stars, this book is literally just a warning to people to not trust strangers even if they are beautiful and rich

as it turns out mark is a psycho who killed kirsty as she was not honest about love and lied as she didn’t know what else to do, also yes it did make me mad that her parents just let her be with a 19 year old stranger even tho she is 15 and has no experience before with relationships and on a holiday where u don’t know anyone who lives there at the beach. also lily not knowing mark/carl was a psycho and just married him within a short amount of time? and alice just inviting a complete stranger to ur house and as her kids say he could be a killer? the only character who was quite sensible was gray/frank and his qualities of looking after his sister and protecting her but that just leads to the death of his dad after him trying to swim out to sea to get kirsty from mark trying to drown her out at sea.

this comes 2nd fav out of the 3 lisa jewel books i’ve read as it wasn’t that confusing compared to “the family upstairs”. the only thing why i didn’t like this more than “and then she was gone” was that this was predictable with

kirsty being in danger and mark being sketchy perv but i did think carl was gray but i was wrong which is good or else i would hate gray which i don’t just fuck mark!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence