Reviews tagging 'Child death'

All of Us Villains by C.L. Herman, Amanda Foody

55 reviews

evanreads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child abuse, Gore, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Body horror, Cursing, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Vomit, Alcohol, and Eating disorder

bouwser's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Emotional abuse

kitkat6678's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Alcohol, and Child abuse

Minor: Toxic friendship and Alcoholism

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Grief, Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Death

salixia_the_elixir's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol, Gore, Alcoholism, Blood, and Child death

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

2.75

This book is complicated, for me. It has aspects I really enjoy, specially one of the protagonists and her storyline. However, the quality is incredibly uneven, swinging from legitimately complex and interesting narrative to the most trope-filled generalized characterization and plot beats I’ve encountered (A character literally points out that there’s “only one bed” in a particularly groan-worthy romantic subplot). Characters that are interesting get strong-armed into changing their behavior and motivations whenever the plot demands, showing the hand of the author plainly. This book is fine for teen readers and fans of #booktok, but it left me wanting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Gore, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Violence

olivander's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

bought this excited to read it, then was very disappointed with the start because the writing was a little lacklustre and very Fanfiction-esque. But then it turned itself around as the plot kicked in which kept me reading tbh, potentially due to the very apparent similarities to the Hunger Games. I didn’t really think the characters lived up to the title of “villains” and there wasn’t much grey area of morality explored. Also something happened towards the end which felt a little bit cheap. But if you’re looking for a fairly easy and familiar read it’s fantastic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Child death, Murder, and Violence

bzliz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

A grim take on a grim subject. It’s hard to find the light in a book about children committing horrific acts for the sakes of their families. Slowly the group is starting to realize that there is something they could do about it but even the path to lifting the curse benefits a possible enemy. I am eager to read the sequel in hopes that all can still be righted though it feels all hope may be lost. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Child death, and Death

mhirsch1213's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.25

This is definitely a YA. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. But the different girl falling for the broody boy is just not my thing like it use to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, and Death

catorureads's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Child death