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The Teacher by Freida McFadden

34 reviews

k8lynn's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

i might need to reread this knowing the ending, because some things just aren't adding up. 

but i did thoroughly enjoy this book, despite the ethics & morals involved. 

**TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR BEING BURIED ALIVE!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Alcohol, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Stalking, Gaslighting, Death, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Grief

allya2259's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent

cartermon4's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

What a twist!?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Domestic abuse, Violence, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Stalking, Cancer, Infertility, and Vomit

thelibraryofanolive's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Body horror, Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Rape, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Infertility, Alcoholism, Cancer, Grief, Gore, Addiction, and Alcohol

aliceaustin's review

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Stalking, Rape, Death, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

akia_nanashi's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

That ending really shook me 😲 🤧

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pedophilia, Violence, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

maevemango's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Murder, Alcohol, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Stalking, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual harassment

kpturner90's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

The Teacher is a book that I was very excited to read as I have heard so many great things about Freida McFadden being the queen of plot twists, which I live for! With that being said, the twists were good, and they were somewhat shocking, but they weren't knock-me-off-my-chair shocking, which is what I'm looking for. I want a twist that will leave me thinking about it for days. This book didn't quite do that for me, along with the fact that it was quite some time before anything notable happened at all. I also found a few plot holes and inconsistencies, along with a few things that didn't make complete sense. These were pretty minor though, and I can look past them to the bigger picture, which is that, overall, this book is a page-turner that I wanted to constantly have my eyes on because I NEEDED to figure it out. I think my slight disappointment in the lack of a big shock factor was more from me setting my expectations to an unreasonably high level based on things I have heard. I still very much enjoyed this book and will buy more Frieda McFadden novels very soon because I'm excited to see what other twisty stories she has to tell. Who knows, maybe the next one will knock me out of my chair with its twists! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Torture and Bullying

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

berberm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Death of parent

kpayne95's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

Good pallet cleanser, like any thriller. Quick read, which I needed after getting through a long series (I’m looking at you 800+ page crescent city book 👀)

I went in blind so I had no idea what to expect. I would strongly suggest looking at the trigger warnings. 
Overall, I gave it 3 ⭐️ for being a quick, page turner and most of the story being captivating. But lost me at the end. 

I didn’t know there would be pedophilia. So, beware. I feel like the ending was so rushed. The girls finally tell the police about Nate but then he’s buried alive and the police just drop the case… I felt like I didn’t get to see justice served. Like, I get they said there’s nothing more terrifying to him than death, but I’m supposed to believe all those girls finally come forward and they are ok that he just disappeared? And then the twist at the end that Eve was doing the same thing to Hudson AKA “Jay” just didn’t sit well for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Alcohol