Reviews tagging 'Child death'

We Were Liars Deluxe Edition by E. Lockhart

505 reviews

paulaferg's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death

Minor: Mental illness

sailinginthetea's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Grief

pokemon_baker's review against another edition

5.0

mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I loved this book it was a mix of good feeling memories but also a sad and broken character going through life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Medical trauma

e_a1's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Second time I read this. I didn’t think I would like it, it was ok the first time, but I actually enjoyed it. I think it was about 3 stars last time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury

raineyrainbows's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

maybetara's review against another edition

2.5

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A very readable book, I powered through it in a day. While the reveal sure was something, it didn't make up for the rest of the book leaving me a little underwhelmed and a times annoyed. 

I think that's partly due to very much not being the YA demographic anymore, I found parts of it a bit too over the top and melodramatic. I probably would have liked this a lot more at 14 than I do at 31. 

Even though it didn't work for me, I can see myself recommending it to the teenagers in my life. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

bec_9's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Blood, Alcohol, Classism

elsalr's review against another edition

4.75

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Dementia

rainerasnic's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury

amberly1997's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Started and finished date - 22.12.24 to 24.12.24.
My rating - Two Stars.
I think this book better then the disreputable history of Frankie landau banks by E. Lockhart but I didn't love it and the cover of book was boring. Both the atmosphere and the writing was okay and the paced of plot was fine. I didn't like the twist in this book and I have mix feeling about characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death