Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

26 reviews

cetasmom's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.5

I added content warnings because I generally don't read books that have children injured or killed, so I'm not sure why I picked this one.  I didn't realize the extent the book would cover the children's death. That doesn't have anything to do with the 3.5 stars, its just my warning to other readers.  Despite the above, I did keep reading and enjoyed the book.  For me a 3 is ok, a 4 really good and I personally withhold 5 starts for something really special or something that touches me.   I did have the who of the of one of the twists figured out, I just didn't know the way.  And I knew the who & why of one of the other murders as soon as it happened.  So 3.5 stars because it was a good book, good storyline but I wasn't wowed.  Would recommend to others with the content warning ahead of time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Sexual assault, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Minor: Pregnancy, Abortion, and Infidelity

writer_egreene's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Dementia, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Addiction, Violence, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Abandonment, Stalking, Murder, and Infertility

Moderate: Pregnancy, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death of parent, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion, Cursing, Miscarriage, Cancer, and Sexual violence

mom_modt's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Infertility, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Miscarriage

sammimac's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Stalking, Violence, Pedophilia, Infertility, Murder, Suicide, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Dementia, Death of parent, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Child death, and Grief

dev921's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Mental illness, Infertility, Alcohol, Suicide, Stalking, Sexual assault, Sexism, Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Murder, Kidnapping, Cursing, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Animal death, Blood, Dementia, Drug use, Grief, Abortion, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Child death, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Rape, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Infidelity

liz0707's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Child death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Violence

kyeruhh's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.0

This was essentially self insert JonBenét Ramsey fanfiction, which, as a girlie who loves fanfiction, was extremely off putting. Strangely, I found the end/epilogue the most interesting bit bc it was the only bit that felt like the author didn’t lift it directly from another true crime case. I probably would have DNFed if I wasn’t reading this for a book club. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

jillianmegan's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.25

I loved the book and definitely points where I could not put it down. It is a POV book with the characters set in different years but there is crossover on characters between the 2 POVs. If you don’t listen to her podcast Crime Junkies the ending is a bit of a cliff hanger but they say a line similar in a lot of their episodes so it made sense to me and I was ok with it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Child death, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Hate crime, Animal death, and Murder

savreads28's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Blood, Cursing, Pedophilia, Child death, Gore, Dementia, and Death

kmsander4's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

As a Crime Junkie, I was excited to dive into the world of Ashley Flowers. And I was right.

Her knowledge and fascination with the world of true crime results in a well developed story with interesting characters and an excellent mystery. 

The only slight downside was that I was able to solve the mystery and figure out the big twist midway through the story and while she kept tossing red herrings out, turns out I had nailed it early on.

But the cliffhanger at the end brought it back up a star. I was not really expecting that! Hopefully this is the first of many from Ashley!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Stalking