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The Family Game by Catherine Steadman

10 reviews

savreads28's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Gore, Gun violence, Cursing, Death, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Blood, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Abortion, Car accident, Death of parent, Addiction, Medical content, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicide, and Violence

jackierobinson's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Bit of a slog tbh, but the ending had me on the edge of my seat! The whole plot however was quite far flung. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Car accident, Cursing, Death, and Classism

Moderate: Blood and Suicide

Minor: Abortion, Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Stalking, Drug use, Vomit, and Drug abuse

tammyanntchou's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Blood, Pregnancy, and Murder

Minor: Grief, Suicide, Violence, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Abortion

javafenn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Catherine Steadman is an author that is have unwittingly gravitated towards. I love her slow burn suspense and her narration is spectacular! The fact that she narrates her own books is kind of what draws me to her. I also really love that her stories involve a lot of mystery without being TOO mysterious and the main character doesn’t seem unreliable. In this story, Harriet (Harry) Reed is getting married into one of America’s most wealthy families. Her future husband, Edward, seems to have steered clear of them for several years because, he claims, they are overbearing and he implies they are scary. She joins Edward to visit his family for Thanksgiving where she meets the patriarch, a handsome, powerful man who immediately seems to read Harriet from the moment he sees her. That first dinner together proves to be the spark that ignites the fire of this off putting family and Harriet. As she finds out, everyone has secrets and those secrets can be used against you. I loved not knowing who was good and who was bad and I also loved how it ended, I just wish *blank* wasn’t the bad one. Also, the hard use of the word “cunt” towards the end was so fantastically wonderful and appropriate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcoholism, Addiction, Suicide, Vomit, Alcohol, and Abortion

Minor: Cursing, Abortion, and Drug abuse

marissa_mace's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Stalking, Pregnancy, Abortion, Grief, and Alcohol

kaseymkelley's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism

amplawrence's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism and Abortion

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Suicide, Vomit, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Violence

becca9849's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Classism, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Addiction, Abortion, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Sexism, Gore, Miscarriage, Grief, and Toxic relationship

thespinystacks's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I went into this suspicious of it being a rip off of Ready or Not, and it kind of was. A cheaper rip off. It was fun and twisty but you have to acknowledge there’s no real explanation for why this rich white family is obsessed with tormenting each other.

If you can get past that then it’s a good read. I just couldn’t exactly let it go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident and Suicide