Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus

27 reviews

libraryghost's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Mass/school shootings

taelights's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

Personally I didn't like this one as much as the first book until the very end because I just disliked all the characters so I just couldn't get into it. I think this author is just not for me and I should just stick the the tv adaption but i will be giving the next book a read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

franticfreya's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Stalking, and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Toxic friendship

literallyliterature's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia and Vomit

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious 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

4.0

I really enjoyed this! Not as much as the first, but it was still really good. I just really like the characters she writes and I love that we got to see the characters from the first in this. Also how the events of the first book effects this one. Now it didn’t get interesting plot wise for the first like 50%(I don’t really care because I like the characters and relationships). The last part of this book I did not see coming my jaw dropped. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

emmacb16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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? No

4.0

I loved this book!! I thought it was very interesting how it was part of the series but it had a completely different plot. The vibes were the same though. I also loved every single character and their development was awesome. 

#TeamMaeve&Luis #Team Phoebe&Knox

In the last few pages, I got very bothered because I thought the author was just going to end the book on the fact that Owen kept the conversation going...but it was pleasantly resolved. 

I got both of these books from the library, but if they ever come out in paperback...I will need them for my own library:)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Chronic illness

Moderate: Addiction and Alcohol

Minor: Stalking, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

kjm_x's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

msradiosilence's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

2.0

Tldr; the plot was heavy on the character study and light on the murder mystery, which made it overall pretty boring. A disappointing sequel to a great first book.

Read my full review at: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/one-of-us-is-next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

Not bad, better than the first in certain ways. I wish the characters (old and new) were a bit more fleshed out. I wanted to know more about them as people outside of the story. I was also hoping for more character development. I’ll definitely be reading the 3rd when it comes out in hopes of more development but I’m not betting on it.

I didn’t see the ending coming though, which was nice (crazy) surprise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

tomasalbanez's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

Not as good as the first one, but still quite exciting in the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Sexism, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Suicide