Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

68 reviews

alex_emilia_smith's review against another edition

relaxing fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Murder, Body horror, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Child death, Gore, Grief, Toxic relationship, Blood, Violence, and Genocide

Minor: Violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Vomit

reads_with_lauren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Alcohol, Grief, and Bullying

weepingstones's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Body horror

maresuju's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Classism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

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

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

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

brianneh's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol

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