Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

106 reviews

sllumbar's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Car accident, and Death of parent

sop17hie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Big warning for INJURY DETAIL. I skipped ahead a bit

This worked well as an audiobook, because the narrator's voice is already so strong. 

I did get a bit lost, kept forgetting Andrew exists.

I'd read it again just to note down who everyone in the family has killed.

Lots of dark humour, good to be reading an Aussie novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infertility, Torture, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction

linakats20's review against another edition

3.25

This was my first time reading a murder mystery. The narration tone/voice that the writer used would have been better suited as an audiobook choice for me; at times I was quite confused by Ern’s side conversations/narrations. The plot wasn’t terrible, and although I hadn’t figured out all of the details, I did figure out the main murderer. I recognize that this genre is meant to lead you  in all directions with dates, times, locations, and an unruly number of details, but at times I just found this extremely slow to read through and confusing to picture for myself… putting the book into “mark as DNF” territory. I’m glad to be able to say I finished this one, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a struggle at times! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction and Vomit

hannahsheil's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

(2.5)

I just couldn’t get into the style of writing (I.e., breaking the fourth wall, cliches out the wazoo, punny and sarcastic quips, etc.) and a lot of it felt like he had to really really spell it all out for the reader, too much for even a mystery novel where everything gets revealed at the end.

I do think it’s unique that they’re not all bloodthirsty, intentional murderers, but that everyone HAS killed someone, even by accident or whatever — unique way of changing up the content from the title.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Chronic illness and Car accident

taylormoore's review against another edition

funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Gun violence and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Infertility, and Infidelity

Minor: Medical content

mazzreads86's review against another edition

funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty

cmbohn's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Suicide, Vomit, and Death of parent

kylaah's review

funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death and Police brutality

Minor: Addiction, Infertility, Infidelity, and Suicide

taranakituturu's review against another edition

funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book is written in a really unique style. I found it very engaging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

babylonghorn's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Infertility and Mental illness