Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Onaantastbaar by Karin Slaughter

7 reviews

booksandcoffee4life's review against another edition

Go to review page

5.0

Wat een goed boek weer van Karin Slaughter!
Echt een heel spannend verhaal en een goede afsluiting van de serie Grant County.
De plottwisten kwamen soms zo onverwacht dat het echt gissen bleef wie de dader was. Dit vind ik prettig in thrillers, aangezien het anders saai wordt. De verhaallijnen zijn allemaal goed aan bot gekomen en allemaal goed afgesloten. Hierdoor is het ook dat ik deze serie nu goed af kan sluiten en ik denk met mij veel meer lezers van deze serie.

Het verhaal speelde zich in de huidige tijd af, maar ook in de verleden tijd (als in een paar dagen voor het verhaal begint), dit was op sommige stukken wel even "o ja, verleden tijd", maar storend vond ik het niet. Uiteindelijk wordt alles duidelijk.

De personages en hun gevoelens zijn ook goed uitgewerkt en hierdoor las het verhaal goed weg. Het enige jammere vond ik dat waar het mee begon met Sara met een korte melding afgedaan wordt. Hier had ik graag iets meer duidelijkheid over gewild, maar aangezien het niet storend was voor het verhaal, geef ik het boek wel de volle 5 sterren.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

ksuppes's review against another edition

Go to review page

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

3.75

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

charlotte_helen's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Wow! Another brilliant instalment to the grant county series with a shocking plot twist at the end. 
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

himpersonal's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I started the Will Trent series first, which was a spin off from the Grant County series. It took a long time to get here, but I finally know what happened to Jeffrey. It wasn’t as satisfying as I’d hoped it was going to be, mostly because all the references to it in all the other books built up a lot more plot than I got in the end.

Also, no matter how pathetic Lena and her circumstances are made, she is still infinitely unlikeable. She is possibly one of my least favorite characters in all the books I’ve read.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

siobhanward's review against another edition

Go to review page

dark slow-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

1.0

 
I didn't love this book and then really hated the ending... To learn that was how Slaugther chose to wrap up a whole series is what dropped this to a single star. I can't speak for how the rest of the series is, but I'm glad I read this one first - if I'd worked through the whole series and this is how it ended, I would have been livid.

Anyway, this book was typical for Slaughter, but definitely weaker than what I've read from her before. Her penchant for torturing women was a lot less pronounced in this book, so I will give her credit for that, but that was the only redeeming quality. I didn't care much for the characters, there were plot lines that went nowhere and were irrelevant to most of the story and moving through time made the plot hard to follow. I get using time/scene jumps for drama, but in this case, it just made it hard to follow.

I think now that I've gotten a bit more into the crime/thriller genre, especially in terms of series, I'm learning some authors are just not worth reading everything from, and Slaughter might be one of those.

 
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

amieleigh8919's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

5.0

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

jackbifrost's review against another edition

Go to review page

dark tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

Expand filter menu Content Warnings