Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

15 reviews

karcitis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Vomit, Death, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Classism, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Bullying, Animal death, Murder, and Body shaming

Minor: Religious bigotry, Kidnapping, Confinement, Sexual content, Colonisation, Racism, Alcohol, Cultural appropriation, Infidelity, and Physical abuse

spellbookspines's review

hopeful mysterious reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, and Vomit

Minor: Gun violence

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

I really enjoyed this book, but the ending wasnt my favorite. I liked the magic/necromancy and how some of the interpersonal relationships grew and changed. But some of the main characters can be a little frustrating or annoying at times.
I will say the "whodunnit" took me by surprise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Child death, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

ash_ton's review against another edition

dark funny 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

4.5

mila is one of those annoying characters that you can grow to love. i think my favorite character was dayton tho. she was so ditzy and sweet. 
i didn't expect the ending at all. well, not until closer to the ending lol but i had no clue for awhile.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Bullying, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

annieisawesome's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

The best part is Dayton. She’s what kept me hanging on. The rest of the main characters aren’t really likeable. I really didn’t like Mila hardly at all. There were very few parts that really kept me going. And a lot of scenes were kind of unnecessary. The “twist” was pretty easy to call. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Suicide, and Death

Minor: Blood, Cursing, Fatphobia, and Racism

frozengh03t's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

<spolier> the ending of the book is definitely a selling point i would say, one of the best plot twist that i have read in a while, even though you could kinda sense it, i feel like it still was a shocker cause you where hoping that it wouldn't be true

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Murder and Grief

Minor: Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Religious bigotry, and Toxic friendship

thisiscourt's review

dark mysterious sad slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, and Bullying

Minor: Cursing

anniereads221's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Suicide, Sexual assault, Racism, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Death, Cursing, Cultural appropriation, Bullying, and Animal death

emily_mh's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.25

This rating is pretty much based on my enjoyment because the plot was a let down. But before we get into that I'll talk about what I did like! This read was atmospheric and spooky. It had good pacing, and the main character, Mila, was a great narrator. And like I said, I really enjoyed reading it! 

HOWEVER, the plot turned out to be quite underwhelming. For a mystery/thriller, it was very linear and if you're familiar with the genre I feel like the culprit is an easy guess. Some other things I didn't like was that apart from Mila, the characters felt a little flat, and I didn't like the whole bully-redemption arc. June and Dayton were literally racist and fatphobic towards Mila while they were living and within a week everyone was buddy-buddy? Not a big fan of that.

All that being said I did like this book, and loved where Mila ended up by the end of it. I would be super interested in reading more books about her life! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Murder, Suicide, Gore, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Grief, Cursing, Fatphobia, Religious bigotry, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Physical abuse, Bullying, Cursing, Body shaming, Excrement, Racism, Ableism, Mental illness, Child abuse, Drug use, Cultural appropriation, Sexual content, Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Rape, Slavery, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Confinement, Colonisation, Gun violence, and Infidelity

lynnmarier99's review

dark funny lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, and Murder