Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney

25 reviews

elenatamsen's review

dark mysterious tense slow-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Miscarriage

tinytrashqueen's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Infertility, Medical content, and Miscarriage

pplydm's review

dark mysterious sad tense 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

4.0

Sometimes I Lie is the debut novel of Alice Feeney. It wouldn't surprise me if it was heaped praise on many thriller book video blogs because there are definitely mind blowing plot twists in it. Sometimes I Lie was impressive in portraying obnoxious characters. Had me assessing if Claire and Amber's personalities occur in reality life or if so, how many turn out alike them? No doubt there were abundance of lies to be detected once a reader finishes the novel.  The pacing was medium and two specific chapter even deeply shocked me. This may be disturbing, agonizing and mind-bending all in one read.

Nana always said that books made better friends than people anyway. Books will take you anywhere if you let them, she used to say, and I think she was right.

Nana used to say that if you didn't let the tears out of you they can turn to poison.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, and Stalking

v171's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

1.0

Yuck.

The good: Paced how you'd expect a thriller book to be paced. The twists at the end were interesting.

The bad: I don't like the concept of an unreliable narrator being used as a plot device. It was burdensome to have to mentally track what was true and false throughout the entire story. I found all of the characters to be unlikable, but I think some were written in a way that I was supposed to sympathize with them. Shifting POV is fine when done well, but I found it to be disruptive in this book. However, the automatic 1 star for me was the multiple instances of rape and sexual assault. There are better, more creative ways to make me to hate a character than making them a rape a woman in a coma. I found it to be a lazy way to add shock factor to a story that didn't need i 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infertility, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Cancer and Vomit

ellalafontant's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer