Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Piramida strachu by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

32 reviews

bookishfoxes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

I am numb after reading this. Wow. Once again a masterpiece with plottwists I did not see coming. Every time I think I've got it figured out, something else happenss. Wow. Amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse, Stalking, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Body horror, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol

drtx_bwt's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Kidnapping, Grief, and Confinement

grace33's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse

savreads28's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Grief, Body horror, Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Violence

milpeaches's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was my absolute favorite of the series. The way that everything was wrapped and tied neatly into a bow was everything I could have wanted. The types of signature and collection of things that fit so well together was incredible. Congrats to Barnes. I believe this is the best I’ve yet to read of her work!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, Stalking, and Self harm

hellxriver's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Domestic abuse

tiana_king's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

Oooof that ending. Would love to see how that’s explained. I loved all the Sloan developments in this book because I always identified with her character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Murder, Grief, Death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse and Stalking

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

michaelawatkins's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Torture and Abandonment

asipofcozy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.25

I am now completely invested in this series. I honestly did not think that I would enjoy it as much as I am. It's not a perfect series by any means. It's YA and does have some of the pitfalls of YA literature - YA tropes, plot holes, classic YA romances, and so on. However, that doesn't distinguish the fact that this series is entirely addictive. I find myself turning the pages faster and faster, like me watching Criminal Minds over and over again.

Also, I just want to say I called that ending! Specifically the ending of a plot line we have been following for sometime. I won't say what but I called it at the end of book one and now I am seeing it flourish. Should I have been able to guess it no, but it was still exhilarating.

My one complaint and one that I might not have caught if I have not watched Criminal Minds 100x over, is that the author does copy/slightly plagiarize an entire scene from a criminal minds episode almost scene by scene and parts of the phrases as well. The only reason I caught it was because I just watched the episode during my annual Criminal Minds rewatch. That scene being

from the Masterpiece episode where Spencer Reid discover's the fabonacci sequence is a key to a map that will show where the victims are. This scene is almost a mirror of the scene within All In where Sloane is doing the same thing with drawing the map out. Also Barnes constantly uses the word "Perfection" and "seeing Perfection". This is the exact verbiage that The Professor uses within the CM episode as well

. I am all for inspiration but not blatant copying. 

I am very excited to get into Bad Blood next! I need to see if my hypothesis's are correct.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Murder, Blood, and Self harm

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

samflowerv6's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

I think this might be my favorite in the series so far. Live Laugh Love Cassie Hobbs.

“Too young to party, just old enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death, Physical abuse, Stalking, Body horror, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder