Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

264 reviews

eoleary821's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, and Mass/school shootings

austin_lakes's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Outing, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Death of parent, Infidelity, Mass/school shootings, and Alcohol

3ch4na's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is really good, I recommend this for people who like Y/A mystery or liked the Agggtm series. Karen M. McManus is a really talented author!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Drug use, Infidelity, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Vomit, Addiction, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Violence

notyourdailynerd's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, Addiction, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Self harm, and Suicide

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicide, Outing, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Bullying, Alcoholism, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Mass/school shootings

rypie1916's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Toxic relationship

wheeliebridge's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I was so surprised by how much I loved this book! Going in I found several of the characters insufferable due to their adherence to stereotypes, but as the story unfolded, the story diverged from the standard tropes. The story explored the biases we all hold, our motivations to lie, toxic relationships, and the incompetence of police. It’s a wonderful book that I would recommend to anyone from teens to adults! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

savreads28's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Outing, Bullying, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug use, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Cursing, Mass/school shootings, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Murder

robinie142's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Grief, Suicide, and Outing

Minor: Mass/school shootings and Drug use

wild_mustang's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

3.25

It was fine.
Pretty much just teen drama - sex, drugs, alcohol and depression. Oh, and trying to stay out of jail - but to be honest there wasn’t heaps of focus on the murder mystery. At least there wasn’t until the last 100 pages or so.

Personally, I didn’t really care for the romance sub-plots either.

The writing was also in a more juvenile voice than what I normally read, which makes sense because it’s first person perspectives from teenagers, but it took me a little while to get used to. Additionally, many of the plots were very trope heavy and painfully stereotypical at times

However, if was a very easy read and only took like 7hrs so it gets an average 3 star rating. The extra quarter of a star is an appreciation of some of the authors writing choices and the execution of perspective narrations to reveal relevant things in the intended literary light and at the right narrative time.

I recently studied Reader-Response Theory and I think, in this light, McManus did a very good job at writing for the implied reader (so the rating is bumped up), however, I really don’t think that I am the implied or intended reader (so it’s still a fairly average rating).

To take a strategic leaf from Simon’s tumblr…
JT recommended this to me and I’m not mad I read it but I certainly don’t care to continue the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Outing

Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, Cursing, and Homophobia

Minor: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Vomit, Abandonment, Sexual content, Cancer, Car accident, Sexual assault, Mass/school shootings, and Self harm