Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

When I'm Dead by Hannah Morrissey

7 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

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

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

kris386's review

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Death of parent, Bullying, Fatphobia, Gore, Murder, Mental illness, Body shaming, Animal death, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Racism, and Misogyny

vj_thompson's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Hannah Morrissey’s writing is so lyrical and beautiful. I was hesitant to pick up the book but I’m glad I did. I want to read her other books! There were parts of the story that frustrated me, mainly the disconnect between Rowan and Axel. I know this was intentional. Libby’s perspective was a conflicting read but ultimately her character is misunderstood. This was a great mystery thriller and I wish more books were written like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, Murder, Death, Mental illness, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Grief, Animal death, Suicide, Body horror, Fatphobia, Bullying, Gore, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment, Sexual content, and Sexism