Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

267 reviews

shawniejo's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Blood, Gore, Kidnapping, Death, Violence, Drug use, and Murder

Minor: Racism and Classism

herzeloyde's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Addiction and Kidnapping

Minor: Racism

chloe_marshall's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Murder and Violence

dfriend12's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Death, Child abuse, and Murder

brina's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Racism, Transphobia, and Murder

amodernhobbitslibrary's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

High marks because I definitely could not anticipate the outcome of this one! 

I was rooting for the MC the whole time, easily relating to her through my time as a nanny. I loved the addition of all the pictures, that really helped sell the story — and drive the point home towards the end. 

Writing was so excellent, that I’ll be looking into more works from this author. Highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys an eerie suspenseful, murder mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Murder

sareebeth's review

dark mysterious sad medium-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Transphobia, and Murder

throwback682's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

Edited: I initially thought I didn’t know if I liked it or not but after telling my partner about it and reading other reviews… I hate it. The half star is for the audiobook narrator who I thought did a great job. This book is a heavy handed morality tale a la after school specials, disguised as a ghost story. It’s transphobic, for one thing.

The people that turn out to be the bad guys are liberals who force their kid into gender transition against their will???

Gross. Just one example of the right wing propaganda in this novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Child death

There is a content warning that I can’t give without spoiling a major plot point. If you have a marginalized identity or might be sensitive to topics related to marginalized identities, I’ll say which one it’s related to here:

transgender

There’s not a character with that identity exactly… again it’s very complicated without giving total spoilers. I’m kinda squicky about them using it as a twist. I don’t know. Edited: okay I thought of a content warning but THIS COULD ABSOLUTELY SPOIL A MAJOR PLOT POINT VERY VERY EARLY. The extremely spoiling trigger warning is

forced gender transition

juliarenae's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

5.0

honestly, didn’t really see the ending coming, but I have never read anything like it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Murder, Kidnapping, and Car accident

madisonjordan5693's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, and Addiction

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Kidnapping, Car accident, and Infertility