Reviews tagging 'Violence'

When I'm Dead by Hannah Morrissey

11 reviews

katk1ndl3's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I'm jot a huge mystery reader, so while this book did keep my attention I didn't really like it. I liked that I couldn't figure out until the last 50 pages who had killed the girls and kidnapped Chloe. But i didn't like that as soon as you found out they got her back so quick with like no obstacles. It was too quick.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Abandonment, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Animal cruelty, Gore, and Medical trauma

hhanock's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying

Minor: Suicide and Kidnapping

cyndi1966's review

dark mysterious tense

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death of parent, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Fatphobia, Suicide, Violence, and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Animal death

wytnie's review

fast-paced

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

2.75

I liked the book but plot wise it felt very rushed to me, events that would happen in one day felt like weeks. I also feel like Rowan wasn't thought all the way through character wise, or at least it wasn't thought through how she would actually handle certain situations. She has a moment where it feels like she does a 180 and its like "where did this come from?". I think the book is good but I also feel like the writer just really wanted to get to the ending and put most of her efforts there. The rest of the characters where written fine I just had problems with the 180 it felt like Rowan did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Torture, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Physical abuse, Stalking, Medical content, Bullying, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

writingforlife's review

medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Violence

m_egg_o's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

I’ve done better detective work on Facebook than that entire police department did on state funding 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia and Sexism

Minor: Suicide

rosesandstuff's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I had a blast reading this and never wanted to put it down!! There were one or two loose ends I don’t feel like were wrapped up perfectly but I can live with that. Perfectly set up a lot of suspicion, a great read. 
There was a bit of repetition… like during the autopsies and a lot of Rowan’s chapters toward the middle, I was getting really sick of reading her perspective. It only picked up when new evidence was introduced and then I could get back into it.
 If you read a lot of thriller / murder mysteries, you’ll probably figure out the killer faster than I did. 
Lastly, I had NO IDEA this was the third book in a series, definitely reads as a stand alone but I’m curious how it would be different if I read the previous books. 

My biggest qualm was I feel like the killer was introduced too late? But that may be a preference thing, also I didn’t love the weirdly placed short smut scene? Just took me out of the mystery for a minute, especially because they jump right back into finding the killer.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Medical trauma, Suicide, and Fatphobia

caseylovett's review

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Gore

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Animal death, and Bullying

aedoran08's review

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, and Violence

milesofkiles's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Violence, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship