Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

19 reviews

cosypuck's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Pedophilia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

sophia_pearl's review

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, and Stalking

orangewitchling's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

For a young adult novel, it was fairly well written if not for the language used a bit flourished but it felt more poetic than obnoxious, otherwise I would have DNF immediately.
I liked the plot and I liked it more because it focused on friendship, loss and trauma. There was the bit of romance, but it was not the center just a side story and it was not dramatic so I find it more like a palate cleanser from all the mystery. 
This was comfy horror and I'm glad I gave it a chance, it read fast enough and entertaining enough for me to not jump to the last chapters and find out, although I had an idea of where the story was going, the ending was still satisfying enough.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

taranim's review

dark 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

I reviewed this book for Paper Lanterns for Issue 14! Full review at the link below:

https://paperlanternslit.com/the-bad-ones-by-melissa-albert-review/ 

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An enjoyable read that was quick but still managed to have a main cast full of fleshed out characters. I wished we had seen more of the aftermath but I liked the way it wrapped up for the most part.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Alcohol

shanaaa's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

bridget_magpie's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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

This is such a strong 4 stars book, I will give it a 4.25 instead. The writing is amazing, Melissa Albert is clearly crazy talented, this book makes me want to check out her other works. 
The characters are so well written half of the time I was conflicted if

Becca is a good person or an antagonist because of her toxic and manipulative behaviour presented a few times in the story.

The ending was good enough for a small town mystery novel, I just didn’t like how

little we got of what happened after. Nora’s other friends didn’t even show up at the end, not even mentioned which I though was unfortunate.

But all in all I really enjoyed this book and I devoured it as fast as I could. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, and Gore

kittykatruin's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sare1125's review

dark mysterious slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Violence, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying

styxx's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

arrr's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

This book does such a good job of accessing that transitional period between magical thinking and growing up. Explores topics of trust, honesty, consequences, vengeance, justice, and friendship. Empowered young women and supportive peer groups. A few queer characters. Good example of kind masculinity. Good examples of how young people can process and cope with the actions of the "bad ones" while being true to themselves and maintaining their power. 

Best friends play the bad kid version of the goddess game and unlock an old mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Pedophilia, Self harm, Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail