Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher

12 reviews

wendy_m_27's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

It's so funny that a lot of the book's problems could have been solved by adding locks to the windows in the town (not nailing them closed lol)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Minor: Deadnaming, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, and Dysphoria

cyerrappa's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Body shaming

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Murder, Abandonment, Confinement, Death of parent, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Eating disorder

lwiggett's review against another edition

I didn’t really like any of the characters, too much to unpack and too many sub plots I could see building. I didn’t like the writing style either, or understand the splitting of the book into 3 parts when it ending up going chronological with flashbacks anyways despite the splitting. Also within the different parts you would think that it would follow the POV of the person that each parts “truth” related to but it kind of bounced all over the place. Overall just not my cup of tea. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Death of parent, Blood, Murder, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, and Gun violence

culebraarcoiris's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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

3.5

Half teen angst, half murder mystery. I didn't expect much of it when I started reading it, but I must say I really enjoyed trying to figure out who the murderer was, along with the characters! 

Lies Like Poison follows 4 teenagers on their path to unravel a murder mystery that upturns and changes all of their lives forever. It was both exciting and heart-warming at the right times, and kept me interested until the last page.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Body shaming

aspectsofamber's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Kidnapping

emily_s22's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Addiction

madarauchiha's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

0.25

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

This book fucking sucked. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. The lgbt parts do not automatically redeem or make good that which is hot shit [like this book]. It's ok to say lgbt media like this book sucks shit straight out of a butthole.

content warnings.

medium teen pregnancy, child abandonment, sexual content [underage ], 

major domestic abuse, eating disorders, mental health institutions, child abuse, fire, homophobia, child death, medical abuse, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Transphobia, Child death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Pregnancy, Child abuse, and Sexual content

claresbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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

3.5

3.5 out of 5 stars. 

Be gay do crimes. 

This book was a rollercoaster. For once, when I thought I had certain plot points figured out the author pulled the rug from under my feet and dangled a new little clue in my face as I lay on the floor dazed from the sudden upheaval.
 

It was all over the place at points, and yet somehow every last little thread tied together at the end in a nice bow as we discover that in the world of this novel there are no great parents, only a couple of good ones and then purely abusive monsters who took out their own trauma on their children. 

I'm glad I picked this one up, even though there were points where some of the characters were simply getting on my nerves for being absolutely conniving or plain stupid to the detriment of themselves. 

And I'm glad I held off of questioning online about what was going on with Jack's pronouns. Like, I understood immediately that Jack is trans, but I didn't know whether they were being misgenderd or what was going on. Glad to note that I had simply missed a minor detail and things get cleared up very neatly and this book doesn't state any gender that Jack doesn't want stated. 

Honestly, this is the queerest mystery novel I've read ever and I need more LGBTQ+ murder mysteries please.

Not the "Bury your gays" type though, screw those. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

klaudiaizabela's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Gun violence, and Murder

bookowllover's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Eating disorder, Kidnapping, and Self harm