Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas

12 reviews

racheldallaire's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Overall, I liked it. I was interested to see how it would end. I was pretty sure I knew who did it before the "reveal", but it wasn't overly obvious. I didn't figure out how everything fit together, however, and that kept me reading and wondering until the end. I loved the character development of Monica and her relationship building with Ginny.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol, Abortion, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Cursing

nomron's review against another edition

dark 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

3.75

I didn't really like this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Abandonment, Violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Abortion, Vomit, Drug use, Drug abuse, Car accident, Blood, Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Cursing, Child abuse, and Gore

elisabeth_li's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Blood, Child death, Pedophilia, Violence, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Cursing

danicampbell0506's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Cursing

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.5

A little slow at the beginning but once things started happening, it picked up. I wish the whodunnit reveal had a little more oomph but it wasn't the worst. And I wish we knew if the person would actually get charged with the all the things they needed to be charged with. I did enjoy the very last bit with Ginny, I wasn't expecting it. And I liked how Ethan's character turned out. 

I wish we found out about what would happen with Tom and Mike knowing that Tom killed an innocent man. And like besides emotion clouding judgement, why he was so quick to kill an innocent man

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Pedophilia, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Murder, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion

rebecca_spain's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Murder, Gore, Grief, Suicide, Abortion, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, and Death

makenna_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Physical abuse, Cursing, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Grief, Drug use, Death, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Car accident, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Murder, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

nicoleherz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

High school mystery, plot twist, revisiting old trauma

Pretty good story, didn't see this twist coming the way I did with Thomas's other book That Weekend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Car accident, Grief, Murder, Mental illness, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Cursing, Blood, Drug use, and Vomit

goodnightngo's review against another edition

3.0

Solid book yet again. I liked the imagery of describing the main character’s surroundings.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug use, Gun violence, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Grief, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Pedophilia

aylin05'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? It's complicated

2.5

this book was okay-ish.
some of the decisions made seem really unreasonable and unrealistic.  like Tom all of a sudden complying and telling Monica about the investigation when he swore not to and said he never would. idk it doesn’t make sense to me. the way it’s written was super confusing and honestly hard to follow. it wasn’t terrible but i also didn’t enjoy it whatsoever either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, and Cursing

Minor: Alcohol