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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

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teelii's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

I loved this book! It was written so well! When is the last time you found a murder mysterious actually funny? My favorite thing about this was the main character constantly breaking the fourth wall and talking to us directly.

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sllumbar's review against another edition

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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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catlover_801's review against another edition

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emotional funny mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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reesewallace's review against another edition

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lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

A good time!

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linakats20's review against another edition

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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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hannahsheil's review against another edition

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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

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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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denika_reads's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

This is not like my usual books and I read it for a book club. I really enjoyed the light hearted feeling compared to my usual books, and did laugh out loud quite a few times!

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