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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

61 reviews

mckinleyelle's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Infertility, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, and Torture

ohgenevieve's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Infertility, Torture, Violence, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Gore, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Medical content, and Classism

We find out that the

child death

didn’t actually occur

concon95's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

lapuce1006's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Suicide, Violence, Grief, and Murder

inhaledmocha's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Torture, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

corriejn's review against another edition

4.5

I'm not a big on many mysteries, but found this one to be an engaging and enjoyable read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol

cianarae's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Sexism, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

cmars83's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

kayceeisbookish's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

A unique murder mystery with a dark humor twist. I highly enjoyed the melancholy narrator's tone as he uncoiled the web of knotted lies that started out as a standard family reunion.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infertility, Suicide, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

beepbeep101's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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

4.25

“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it’s who you’d spill it for.” 

Fantastic. Twists all the way to the last page. The extra .25 is for the last quarter of the book or so, as so much happened right after each other that beautifully brought everything together and turned things on their head. I loved the narrative voice of Ern (who isn’t a crime writer but instead is a how-to-be-a-crime-writer writer), who recounts the book’s events with a sense of humor about the writing process. He even gives the page numbers at the beginning on which every death in the book will occur - something which sounds like it would spoil a great deal, but things often happen differently than you expect them to. 

A great read, though definitely check the content warnings, as it wasn’t quite as light as I expected it to be from word of mouth recommendations. It gets into revenge, PTSD, infidelity, infertility, and addiction, and descriptions of trauma and injuries were a bit heavier than I expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism, Vomit, Car accident, and Alcohol