Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

8 reviews

lillygabriella's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Make sure you are in the mood for something dark before you start this book. You can trip into trouble easily in a town run by vampires, as our main character discovers. Claire gets on the wrong side of the most psychotic girl in university and it's only her first term. Things only escalate from there. 

I read this ages ago, but had forgotten most of it, and could hardly put it down. I need to read the sequel like right now.

Just be warned: there are no Happily Ever Afters in Morganville, Texas.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Physical abuse, Murder, Car accident, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Stalking, Suicide, Violence, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Torture, and Vomit

zuzanna_glowacka_slapa's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Bullying

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Grief, Abandonment, Blood, Alcohol, and Child death

kassiebetweenpages's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? No

5.0

Reread

This is such a comfort read for me, I read it in middle school and I will forever love, the characters. Does it hold up to today’s writing probably not, but I don’t care I still love it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

iamjamface's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

stormywolf's review against another edition

dark lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

 The theme for this month's Vampire Book Club was start-to-a-series. I actually have owned this book for ages but haven't had a good excuse to start a new series (hence this year's reading goal), so I welcomed this chance to finally pick it up. Straddling the line between YA and NA, would this be the start to a compelling series I'd be chomping at the bit to continue, or would these vamps leave me feeling stale?

Read my full review at The Wolf's Den

Overall, I think this is the start to a fun and fast popcorn series. If you're wanting something a little melodramatic, action-packed, and twisty, with a sprinkling of teen romance, snarky banter, and bloody fangs, then you might want to check out this series. It may come off a tad dated with its reliance on the I'm-not-like-other-girls protagonist and cartoonish-bully tropes, and a noticeable lack of smart phones, but that also just feeds into its nostalgic charm. I don't know when I'll get the chance to come back to this series, but its a safe bet that it won't be too long from now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, and Stalking

Minor: Vomit, Police brutality, Alcohol, Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

indirys's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

 This series is one of my guilty pleasures. A co-worker of mine introduced me to this series about a decade back. It pulled me straight in, and I keep on re-reading it even in my mid-thirties. This first book will always have a special place in my heart because it starts it all. And yes, as a lot of comments state, the characters don't always make wise decisions. But they're supposed to be teens, so duh! And it definitely makes for a page-turner, with all the unexpected (though at times silly) twists and turns. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

okaynextcrisis's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

3.75

Smarter than I thought it would be 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying

ridleyreadsthings's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It was full of early 2000s nostalgia and I loved every minute of it. It's a bit more on the late teen side which I didn't expect so that was a nice Suprise. Full of action, tension and mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse