Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

19 reviews

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

anutter's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Gore, Suicide, Torture, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

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

booksthoughtsandtea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

The big reveal really got me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Fun, unpredictable, satisfying ending, mystery, five star, who done it, worth the hype,

oblij's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Infertility, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

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

themdash's review

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

dkamada's review

challenging funny informative lighthearted mysterious

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

clovetra's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

damn. this is probably the best adult mystery novel i’ve read. 

i mean already bonus points for being australian. like idk the tone of this book just makes sense to be australian. it’s so goofy and wacky yet insane. once i realised the setting i went “ahhh yes everything already makes sense”. 

also props to the writing of ernest. not only is he so incredibly funny, but he’s intelligent and intriguing. he has a personality beyond the detective role in this novel, and his fourth wall breaks were just epic. i mean cmon him telling us after someone’s vomiting “she’s not pregnant u idiots i know it’s a cliche but she’s not pregnant i can assure you”. and this book is just that for like 370 pages which was AMAZING. i always love me some well-timed meta-commentaries and this book is filled to the brim with it. i’m so serious at times i was doubting this was a work of fiction and not just an autobiography with some names changed.

the other characters in this cast felt a little flat to me, but i think that’s just because there’s so many people. almost everyone except ernest is reduced to one or two facts about them until the very end where there is exposition diarrhoea about every single character.

except andy bro was just along for the ride. he started the story with a beer, and ended it with hitting someone with a fire poker. thank you for your service andy

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and that brings me to why this book isn’t 5-stars — the actual mystery. now i will always give a book credit where credit is due, in that i didn’t guess the killer. yay!!!! but honestly i don’t think i could if i tried. so much was going on even at my hardest i could not follow what was going on. and when this character is hiding x and this character is hiding y and this character is hiding z i was just flatlining. there’s a fine line between keeping your audience on their toes and letting your mc figure out the mystery just before they do, and having ur reader so fucking lost that they have no hope of figuring it out until the great reveal where all is explained. like yes okkkkk i do understand how this all went down at the end…. but holy shit there were so many fucking moving pieces and conclusions leapt to by one liners i really had no hope. and that is where this book lets me down. it’s trying to be so clever and it does achieve that, but at the risk of the reader having to just roll with the punches because almost every chapter there is a plot twist and at some point you just cannot keep up with them anymore.

i will say though that i will defo be continuing this series, as although i just bitched and moaned about how this book was too intelligent, i still had a great time. 

i will say though that as much as this book tries to sell to the readers that it is not your average mystery novel…… by the end it lowkey does turn out to be 🤐

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Vomit, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

aliciavalenski's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail