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People Like Us by Dana Mele

28 reviews

bessadams's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Bullying, and Murder

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Grief, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Self harm, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Vomit

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Adult/minor relationship

savreads28's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic friendship, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Suicide, Death, Murder, Suicide attempt, Classism, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Gore, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

jinx3djules's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Gore, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death, and Bullying

Minor: Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

veggiestrawenjoyer13's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

3.5

I’m gonna be honest, the beginning had me doubting the book. About halfway through the story really picks up and the end had me shocked. I was so so shocked at who the killer was, that it brought the books rating up a whole half star. 

I’ll start with the pros. I genuinely could never form a real theory. I figured some people were too obvious, but I had no other leads. The mystery was really entertaining. Not only the mystery with the murder case, but also with information about characters. The slow reveal of what happened in Kay’s hometown had me so hooked and I liked that little moments were sprinkled throughout the book. 

Now the cons. Until the end, I would’ve rated this book 3 stars. Especially at the beginning, I felt like the writing lacked emotion. It was a very tell-not-show style and I wasn’t used to it. I do think the writing got a little better throughout, but some things still confused me. Kay received some heavy threats and acted completely normal about what happened on the website. As she did each task, I felt like the book rushed through those moments. Also, all the characters at the beginning of the book confused me, but it was not too difficult to understand after a few chapters.

Overall, the book is probably worth 3 stars, but the plot twist was so good that I had to bump up the rating. It was enjoyable to read and I liked the suspense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Bullying, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Animal death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide attempt, Classism, Homophobia, and Adult/minor relationship

bugbatsy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.25

I had my attention the whole way through, and I enjoyed it enough... the main character was a bit interesting as well as another character, the rest I didn't really care for that much. The mystery was really good though!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Car accident

colorful_lulu's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I still really want Brie to be the killer. Nola was too obvious and Brie was so annoying. Plus Key was going to forgive her making her a more gray character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death and Classism

Minor: Homophobia

epeolatrist's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Violence and Bullying

Minor: Homophobia

reading_under_covers's review against another edition

2.0

Meh. Over the top plot, awful awful characters, and a letdown of an ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Infidelity and Murder

zsometimesreads's review against another edition

this book was very disappointing. it has a great cover which is such a shame because the rest of the book sucked. i hated all of the characters, especially kay, (i know that she’s not supposed to be liked but still) she was so annoying and kinda had no personality. the characters names were so weird too, like greg??? who names their character greg??? out of all the names in the world, why greg????? unless this is a danny reference only then would that be acceptable but i highly doubt that. this book was so childish but the topic and language were quite heavy and not for a younger audience so i have no idea who the audience of this book is. i got so bored that i just skipped to the end to find out the plot. i’m glad i did because the plot was so dumb????

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Suicide

nomatophobia's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

why was Brie even in this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Death, and Murder