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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

39 reviews

gondorgirl's review

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

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: Injury/Injury detail and Fire/Fire injury

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

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

arlaubscher's review

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, and Infertility

ohgenevieve's review

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: Murder, Torture, Alcohol, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Violence, and Death

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

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

We find out that the

child death

didn’t actually occur

ecstarr's review against another edition

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

corriejn's review against another edition

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

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

Minor: Alcohol

chelseylb1988's review

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

agirlsnightbookbash's review against another edition

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

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

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

beepbeep101's review

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

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

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Vomit, and Car accident