Reviews tagging 'Child death'

There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

13 reviews

yerawizardlaura's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Child death, Violence, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

A classic teen horror novel, familiar troupes are elevated by themes of regret, gossip, presumptions, collective loss, and self-acceptance in spite of regret. Not to mention that it focuses on the interior lives of the victims instead of the villain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Death, Medical trauma, Gore, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Stalking, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, and Racism

Minor: Drug use, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Domestic abuse

The nature of the gore involves body mutilation, and there is graphic violence with knives. Narcissism in children and adults is explored throughout the text.

savreads28's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Blood, Mental illness, and Cursing

cady_sass's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

1.25

I am so mad at myself for finishing this book. This had every reason to be a DNF, but I convinced myself that there was a huge twist coming and it never did. 

The killer is revealed a little more than halfway in. I should’ve stopped there. But it was so early?! Surely it can’t be that simple? Alas, surely it can. And SO BORING and lackadaisical in the reveal too. For what? Oh, and the mysterious and dark and super top secret backstory of our main character that they hint towards the whole time? Huge let down, entirely irrelevant, and the actual core of the problem with that backstory is never addressed, at all, by any character even in the present. On top of that, all of the characters are unlikable (not in a good / on purpose way) or are completely random (as in, I don’t care about them or know anything about them) so the whole time you’re either like “ugh” or “who? Am I supposed to care?”

I feel so swindled. 1 star for the body horror and sorta graphic murdering, moderately impressive for a YA thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Child death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Violence, and Bullying

Hazing, underage drinking, divorce

michaelion's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.25

I love when teens sleuth. The ending was too quick unfortunately. Much to be explored.

I thought the killer's motivation was misogyny. After Rodrigo explained he wasn't a misogynist any more, I figured that was where the plot was going. But the killer's thing being he didn't want people to leave town is easier to sympathize with. Not valid, just kind of understandable.

If you liked this, you'll LOVE Jackal by Erin E. Adams.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Stalking, Violence, Sexual assault, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Gore, Misogyny, Abandonment, Bullying, Racism, Body horror, and Sexual content

Minor: Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Transphobia, and Death of parent

kshertz's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a scary one for me! There’s a killer on the loose. They rearrange your house and then kill you and rearrange your body. No one is safe from the killer. But who is it? 

I loved the characters and the development of the plot. Some parts described the deaths in way too much detail for me! But it was intriguing and kept me reading nonstop so I definitely recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Stalking, Torture, Murder, Bullying, Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

kmccann98's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Murder, and Gore

vkitoria's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

this reminded me a lot of “clown in a cornfield” but with more focus on the characters, and also romance. the murders were GRUESOME.

the main thing i disliked about this book was how often makani’s “dark past” was mentioned. it annoyed me very early on and then when it was finally revealed what had happened, it felt so stupid?? she was getting violently hazed by her teammates but then the big scandal to come out of it is is that she… cut someone’s hair? ridiculous.
i also just didn’t really get the reveal of the killer, or his motivations. i don’t care so much about that but still worth mentioning that it felt a bit weak.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, and Murder

sailortea_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Child death

trycerabel's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Murder, Stalking, and Gaslighting