Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Havoc at Prescott High by C.M. Stunich

4 reviews

kat1105's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

briannagriffin567's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Blood, Child death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Violence, Gore, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Child abuse, Bullying, Mental illness, Murder, and Physical abuse

duhdanielleduh's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Is it well-written? No. Does the plot make sense? Absolutely not. Did I enjoy it? Sure did. 

The things that took me out of it were small but significant. The writing is really repetitive, and there are entire paragraphs of internal monologues that I felt like I'd read 10x before. Also, how are all of these teens completely covered in tattoos? One or two, I'd understand, but all 6 of them? I also really don't like when fad slang is used because it sounds so dated (for example, more than once, Bernie says her makeup is "on point). Also, I don't remember if it was in this book (I've read all 5 now) but I HATED the Covid references. They were so weird and unnecessary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicide and Child death

sleeplesschapters's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Wow. First off, this book is a reverse harem high school bully romance. Very important to remember going in. If you don’t like those things, this will not be for you as it holds true to every one of those tropes. TW rape, abuse, violence, suicide 

Ok now with that warning out of the way, let’s get into it. You really have to put aside any idea of happy life/happy romance ideas you have in your head. That’s not what this is. 

It’s wild. The characters are rough. The language is rough.  By the end it’s really a wtf did I just read type of thing. It must have hooked me though because here I am reading book #2 of the series. 

I loathe reading sex scenes involving minors. I mostly can mostly forget that these characters are in high school (17 years old) while reading because of their circumstances and how they act but still… ick. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death and Suicide