Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

184 reviews

leahb88's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Moderate: Body horror and Murder

hillysreads's review

dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness and Miscarriage

phippsmr's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

tiffany jackson loves making me cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Grief, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

srocheteau's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, and Murder

rachrreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? No

4.0

I really enjoyed this book and I definitely recommend reading. My one criticism is that the book jumps around a lot and it’s hard to understand what happened when. The chapter titles seem easy to understand — “The Before”, “The After”,  “One year before the before”— but I still struggled to figure out where it really happened in time. Now that I have finished, I’m sure I’d understand better on a reread!

I truly was not expecting the huge twist at the end. This book deals with such a hard subject and is actually based off a real case. Tiffany D. Jackson handled this difficult subject in such a graceful way. The whole book Claudia is convinced something happened to Monday, but no one will listen. Claudia even goes to the police, but they won’t do anything since she’s not Monday’s parent. The school won’t listen, her parents are convinced everything’s fine, but Claudia feels something is wrong.

I wont say more than that so as not to spoil. All I will say is please read this book!

*Also yes I was given an ARC back in fall 2017 and then never read it because of college 😂 Thanks, Ang for setting up the buddy read!*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, and Murder

ospreyadventure's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Grief, and Murder

elizabethbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

nightlylaments's review

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

This book really had me crying in the library. I knew it was going to be sad but I didn't guess the ending.

While reading I thought the mom was abusing them so Monday ran away. I was so devastated when I found out she killed her and August.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, and Murder

Minor: Physical abuse

calamitywindpetal's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Murder, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

kristynpittman's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Part of me knew what was coming but it was still one of the most tense audiobooks I've ever listened too. I was on edge the entire 10 hours just hoping it didn't end as cruelly as I knew it would. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Minor: Addiction, Abandonment, and Alcohol