Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

48 reviews

gondorgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

infusionofviolets's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense slow-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? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Gore, Infertility, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

arlaubscher's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Infertility, and Alcohol

ohgenevieve's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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, Death, Infertility, Torture, Violence, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Gore, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Medical content, and Classism

We find out that the

child death

didn’t actually occur

ecstarr's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

corriejn's review

4.5

I'm not a big on many mysteries, but found this one to be an engaging and enjoyable read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol

chelseylb1988's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

agirlsnightbookbash's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, and Alcohol

stephliljazz's review against another edition

funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

This was my first step into crime fiction. it is kind of hard to follow for me. I think it's just me though because the story was good. Crime mystery with twists and turns and lots of family drama with a very slow pace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Suicide, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

beepbeep101's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-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

“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it’s who you’d spill it for.” 

Fantastic. Twists all the way to the last page. The extra .25 is for the last quarter of the book or so, as so much happened right after each other that beautifully brought everything together and turned things on their head. I loved the narrative voice of Ern (who isn’t a crime writer but instead is a how-to-be-a-crime-writer writer), who recounts the book’s events with a sense of humor about the writing process. He even gives the page numbers at the beginning on which every death in the book will occur - something which sounds like it would spoil a great deal, but things often happen differently than you expect them to. 

A great read, though definitely check the content warnings, as it wasn’t quite as light as I expected it to be from word of mouth recommendations. It gets into revenge, PTSD, infidelity, infertility, and addiction, and descriptions of trauma and injuries were a bit heavier than I expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism, Vomit, Car accident, and Alcohol