Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Family of Liars by E. Lockhart

31 reviews

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Death

Moderate: Classism, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Vomit, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

safety_pin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Self harm

Moderate: Alcohol and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Outing

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

This was good. I really didn’t know what to expect when I went into this but I enjoyed it. The writing style is odd like we were  liars were, but after a while you just get used to how it’s written. I honestly really like the main character and she did nothing wrong I mean she did but I forgive her. This also made me tear up at the end. I think if you enjoyed we were liars you should pick this up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Violence, Murder, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

teastoriesrepeat's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Addiction, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Rape

tlikestoread's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Grief, Murder, Rape, and Violence

mysterymom40's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Violence, Sexual content, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Medical content, Sexual assault, Blood, Toxic friendship, Death, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Infidelity

ghosts

franchesqua_levi's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

5.0

I read we were liars at the start of this year, it was the book that got me out of my reading slump that lasted years, so of course I had to read the prequel. 

We were liars made me cry so much and for some reason I thought family of liars was basically going to be a copy and paste of we were liars. I was so wrong. This book made me so angry with it that I wanted to toss the book across my room. For the past week, all you could hear coming from my room was, "NO" "HOW DARE YOU!!?" And a lot of screaming. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to feel something, but someone who isn't much of a crier. 

I'm not vey good with trigger warnings, but I would say that some of the main ones are rape and death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Rape, Murder, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Homophobia, and Self harm

emilyellen07's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Classism, Drug use, Death, Murder, Addiction, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Blood, Child death, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, Cursing, and Medical content

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

I didn't like this one as much as We Were Liars. The MCs were mostly unlikable and the supernatural element was weird and unnecessary. It was still a good book but nowhere near as good as the first. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Drug use, and Infidelity

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death, Sexual violence, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault and Homophobia

rayneyisreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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: Child death, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, and Injury/Injury detail