Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

7 reviews

book_hoarder_frfr's review

4.25

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A murder/mystery which focuses more on human nature and how each deal with grief, betrayal and relationship.

Annie is a breath of fresh air from most MC in a mystery book. She has her flaws, gets scared and aware of the risks. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma

irisengel's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really enjoyed this book. It read very fluidly, and the story felt believable and grounded. 
I wasn't overly concerned with figuring out who-done-it, and moreso just enjoyed the story. Because of this, I definitely did not guess the ending at all. 
I felt connected to Annie, and Francis, propelled to learn more. I look forward to the next! 

There was a continuity error in terms of who owned the Rolls Royce, but maybe I didn't read that correctly. From my understanding, it belonged to Ford's father, but he died in a car accident? wouldn't that imply the rolls got smashed?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Medical trauma, Stalking, Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Death, Gun violence, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Classism

emoryjoy's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious tense

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was so good! It was well written and I was thoroughly impressed with the writing. It nailed the back and forth narrative, jumping from the now back into the past and seeing how things went down and led to the events today. It felt like a proper mystery and while I guessed *some* of the ending I was still surprised at the twist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Classism

maryconney's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Vomit, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Outing, Abandonment

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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    The book was enjoyable, however, I enjoyed the flashbacks/diary entries more than the present-day portions of the book. I felt like the things that happened in the 1960s were more interesting and easier to get into than what was otherwise happening.

     Frances was much more interesting than Annie who was a bit boring, and whose story you didn't get into as much. I hope in future books we learn more about Annie and I start to care more about her & her character. Laura, Annie's mom just seemed awful for most of the book. 

    The characters were a mix of likable and unlikable. Not just the villains were unlikable, it was more like a 30/70 split of likable and unlikable for me. 

   I wasn't able to easily figure out the mystery. I do look forward to the next book.

Narrators' Rating: 4 stars

    I'd give Annie's narrator about 2.75 stars and Frances' narrator a 4-star rating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Dementia

lavaly_1's review against another edition

5.0

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

purplepenning's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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Really wanted to love it, but my interest kept wandering, which made it difficult to keep a large cast of characters in two different timelines straight. Great premise, but maybe a tighter edit would've been more to my tastes. I was unexpectedly bored and annoyed by the 1960s bright young things timeline — teen drama often affects me that way. And the present-day story managed to be both packed with clues and yet lacking a sense of urgency to drive it. I did enjoy that it felt like a fair, classical mystery, though — I had half of it figured out before the reveal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Infertility, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Classism

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