Reviews tagging 'Death'

One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus

147 reviews

beedabop's review

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, and Bullying

Inappropriate

itsacsa's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

Que vivan los libros juveniles y de misterio 🥳
Este libro vino a salvar mi diciembre luego de pasar ✨meses sin poder terminar de leer nada.✨

Esta es la segunda parte de “Alguien está mintiendo” pero tenemos protagonistas diferentes. Poco más de un año después de los acontecimientos del primer libro, ocurren estos hechos donde una persona misteriosa empieza a acechar a estudiantes de Bayview con un “juego” de verdad o atrevimiento. Los que son seleccionados tienen 24h para elegir si prefieren un desafío o que se revele una verdad sobre ellos. 

Siento que la autora crea muy bien a los personajes, les da profundidad y les hace interesantes. Para mí, esta historia fue más allá del juego, yo quería saber qué onda con los demás detalles y que la autora puediera crear eso me parece super genial. 

Cuando se va descubriendo el misterio de quién está detrás de todo, medio me decepcioné porque esperaba más PERO no contaba con ese capítulo final y que la autora dejara a merced de mis pensamientos cómo se resuelve todo. Solo por este hecho, el libro subió en mi escala de favoritos del año. 📈

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death of parent, and Death

auds_wright's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, and Infidelity

Moderate: Suicide, Cancer, Alcoholism, Child death, and Murder

hypofocus's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

A great follow up to One of Us is Lying! I was just as invested this time around. McManus has the multi-POV style down to a science. Great pacing, great POV switching, great trickling of info and wonderful payoff come reveal time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual violence, Addiction, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, and Bullying

bookbugbex's review

mysterious tense 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: Bullying, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault

natasha_dean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

It just ends?!?!?!?!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Vomit, Sexual assault, Cancer, and Death

dramagirl2003's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

the drama! the suspense!! the plot twists!!! I loved every chapter!!!! 
when I realised the MCs were different this time I was slightly apprehensive, but I was hooked from the first page!! I loved the appearances from characters in the first book

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Murder, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Medical content

Minor: Suicide and Sexual assault

there's not really any sexual content, just making out

the_embodiment_of_chaos's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Stalking, Sexual assault, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Vomit, Antisemitism, and Sexual content

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.5

In the sequel to One of Us is Lying, we get a new-ish cast of characters, Maeve is the only one we saw in the last book but this time we get her POV. We also get POVs from two more characters, Knox and Phoebe. Interesting concept of a dangerous game of Truth or Dare! I also kind of liked getting new characters, while also still getting peeks at characters from book 1.

It’s a little slower than book 1, with most of the drama being in the first and last thirds; the pacing is slightly off as the middle drags a bit. Compared to book 1 which had a slow build up throughout.

The twists were unexpected and I didn’t see them coming-and no cop out this time! The execution worked so well, and was so much better than OoUiL. I did guess the person involved but I didn’t correctly guess the motivation or the other twists!

For once, the sequel was better than the first 😍 The ending was also well done with a bit of suspense and leaving it perfectly open for book 3, which now I actually can’t wait to read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cancer, Bullying, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Death, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual content, and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide

melist6's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Death

Minor: Sexual harassment