Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Playing Nice by JP Delaney

9 reviews

tenjusahari's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I liked this book a lot. It was full of difficult conflicts that were super exciting to read. It was hard to really like any of the characters but most of them had an interesting development. 
The end was kind of surprising for me (spoiler warning): I'm not happy that Maddie killed Miles. I really hate people like Miles because he's way too dominant, egoistic, dangerous and without any emotions but what Maddie did is just an act of self-justice and I can't morally agree with that. But I'm still kind of happy with the end because it feels like the kids are alright. At least I hope so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Car accident

Minor: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Ableism, Misogyny, and Murder

kfran12's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Addiction, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Cursing, and Child abuse

blueyogi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

Moderate: Car accident, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical trauma, and Chronic illness

Minor: Child abuse, Addiction, Child death, Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Medical content, Ableism, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

amydrisc's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism and Mental illness

Minor: Infidelity, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Car accident, Kidnapping, and Murder

raysh3ll's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

This book was sometimes challenging for me to read because I found it so tense and uncomfortable. Overall I thought it was good, but compared to the pace of the rest of the book, the ending felt rushed. It seems like the topics the writer wrote about were well researched.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Infidelity, Murder, and Pregnancy

shereadsmysteries's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Death, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder, Abandonment, Ableism, Alcohol, Vomit, Car accident, Stalking, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Abortion, Drug use, and Pedophilia

NICU flashbacks

amyspag'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Murder, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Animal death, and Domestic abuse

ohkimly's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.5

this book had me thinking heavily at each action, doubting not only the many “antagonists,” but also the main characters as well. i don’t know how to feel about the ending, i only know i don’t judge the characters for how it ended because i can’t say i wouldn’t do the same. really good book, definitely worth the read. (did not pass the bechdel test as far as i could tell) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Minor: Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

smoothas_sylk's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Murder