Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

One of Us is Dead by Jeneva Rose

9 reviews

lyshbish's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

A book with this much sex and murder should not be this boring!! It wasn't necessarily predictable... I just didn't really care by the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Cursing, Infidelity, Body shaming, and Classism

Moderate: Outing, Death, Violence, Murder, and Sexual content

julienicole1106's review

fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Classism, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Alcohol, Death, Murder, and Outing

aleen_elizabeth's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

The slowest burn I've ever read from a thriller. Only picked up at the 7 hour mark. Which is a little unfortunate that you spend 7 hours listening to only get 2 hours of intriguing action.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Bullying, Infidelity, Death, Classism, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Physical abuse, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Biphobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, and Trafficking

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Not my favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Toxic friendship, Violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Gun violence, Infidelity, Classism, Murder, Bullying, Death, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Lesbophobia and Trafficking

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This felt like a 3 star read for the first half of the book. The characters are painfully unlikeable (on purpose) and the writing is quite good but I just don’t feel entertained by middle aged rich housewives. Then somewhere around 60% things got REAL. The characters still suck, but there are some dark twists that I did not see coming. Read this in one day, fun and unputdownable. If you’re a real housewives fan I think you would EAT this up! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Blood, Bullying, Misogyny, Vomit, Abandonment, Cursing, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Classism, Sexism, Sexual content, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Trafficking

sleeson's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I did not see this coming. I love novels that show up and give me a surprise ending. However, I am a self proclaimed prude. Medium sexual content and medium profanity. I loved there were multiple narrators in the audiobook. It makes listening a lot of fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Infidelity

Moderate: Trafficking and Toxic friendship

tarynreadss's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

I absolutely adored and devoured this book. This was such a fun read and I loved the audiobook, it was so fun and entertaining to listen to all the different characters POVs and the alternating timelines. This was funny, drama-filled, entertaining, engaging, fast paced, and jaw dropping. I seriously had so much fun with this book, it was unlike anything I'd ever read! However, I think it's important to point out a problem I had with the book. One of the characters refers to another character (in a wlw relationship) as a "carpet muncher." This is totally unacceptable. The character who says it is objectively evil, however, the author should have left this homophobic comment out of the book completely. There was absolutely no need to add this comment in, especially when the character had already been fully developed as evil and a terrible person. There is absolutely no reason or excuse, that in 2022, a homophobic comment should be put in a book. It was very disappointing to see. I know there was another comment along the same lines, made my the same character earlier in the book. I don't own a physical copy so I'm unable to look it up, but it's disheartening to see that this happened twice within the same book. I hope this author chooses to educate themselves and do better in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Trafficking and Lesbophobia

mypatronusisajedi's review

dark funny mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

Minor: Violence and Sexual content

sderrig's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Classism, Cursing, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Slavery, Outing, Biphobia, Bullying, and Child abuse