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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
57 reviews
patch22's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Vomit, Kidnapping, Suicide, Car accident, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Infidelity
inirac's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Addiction, Murder, Body horror, Confinement, Abandonment, and Car accident
Moderate: Police brutality, Vomit, Suicide, Drug abuse, and Child abuse
infusionofviolets's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Gore, Murder, Violence, Medical content, Suicide, Infertility, Kidnapping, and Death
Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, Child death, Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Blood
arlaubscher's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gun violence, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Suicide, Car accident, Torture, Vomit, Medical content, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Violence
Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, and Infertility
ohgenevieve's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Murder, Torture, Alcohol, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Suicide, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Grief
Minor: Medical content, Blood, Classism, Drug abuse, and Drug use
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- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Libro interessante, un thriller con un serial killer e una famiglia non molto normale in una pensione sulla neve, con una narratore che prende la quarta parete e la fa direttamente esplodere. E per quanto sia una mossa interessante e originale, non è nelle mie corde. Mi sembra più una mossa utilizzata dagli autori quando sanno che il loro stile non è eccezionale e sperano che facendo degli spoiler i lettori saranno inter ssati e continueranno a leggere, but that's just my guess.
Thriller interessante, con personaggi realistici e per questo anche travagliati. Penso a te, Lucy. Che io u amore ti voglio bene però lov se tuo marito ti manda le carte del divorzio accettalo. Meriti di meglio.
Erin personaggio interessante, capisco il suo volersi allontanare da Ernest per la questione dei figli, ma onestamente non so se chiavarsi il fratello sia la mossa migliore. Anche tu meriti di meglio, babygorl.
Katherine e Sophia altri due bei personaggi, cin il complesso di colpa e la dipendenza. Sarà che mi piacciono le donne, sarà che da grande sogno di essere un bimbo come Andy.
Twist interessante e unexpected (anche se se non ti mostrano il cadavere dovresti essere sempre all'erta), ma il personaggio della Lingua Nera forse un po' cartoonist. Il tono del libro è serio, crime, nonostante ci siano battute e momenti leggeri, ma il serial killer, quando si rivela, è un po' troppo.
Uccide perché è pazzo pazzo, perché sogna di soffocare, perché credeva di trovare la propria famiglia di supercattivi. Capisco il trauma, ma avere un trentenne che crede in questa famiglia di cattivoni è...particolare, ecco.
La questione della macchina, poi, il crimine di Audrey, mi sembra un po' impossibile. Capisco che lei sia stata molto stressata e traumatizzata e io la giustifico 100%, ma, sapendo che Ernest aveva sei anni, che Jeremy ne aveva cinque e che Micheal è il fratello maggiore, qualcuno mi può spiefare che ci facevano nei passeggini? Sarò io che non conosco abbastanza i bambini, ma un creature di sei anni mi sembra abbastanza intelligente da riuscire ad aprire una portiera o spaccare un vetro. Ma auanto pare no.
Altro elemento che si distacca un po' dal resto del libro è la questione delle foto: Robert è un classico padre di famiglia che per mantenersi fa dei furtarelli, quindi mi spieghi com'è possibile che fa la mossa da spy story per nasconderle? Roberto il padre di famiglia cinquantenne? Capisco fossero importanti, ma mi sembra più il tipo da sotterrarle sotto un albero, soprattutto per come ci viene descritto. Che lui usi una mossa da James Bond mi sembra solo un plot twist interessante che l'autore ha creato e ha messo nonostante non fosse credibile .
Tutta la storia di Rebecca e il vero plot twist finale alla fine li vedo con una lente di distacco, perché tutta la questione delle foto e della morte scaturiscono da una cosa così poco credibile. Ma, comunque, restano una trovata carina per spiegare qualcosa lasciato un po' troppo aperto.
Lo consiglierei? Sì, perché nonostante provassi a limitarmi l'ho finito in una questione di giorni. Uno stile davvero scorrevolissimo e pieno di cliffhanger, daje Benjamin.
Graphic: Murder and Child death
Moderate: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Car accident, Suicide, and Alcoholism
ecstarr's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Vomit, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Medical trauma, Addiction, Suicide, Violence, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Torture, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Murder, and Self harm
boba_n_books's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Ernest (Ernie) Cunningham is going to a family reunion in an isolated location in the middle of winter. Nothing could go wrong... right? Well, with the full cast of Cunningham characters and their sordid pasts, Ernie knows something terrible is bound to happen. At the beginning of the book, Ernie promises to be a fair and reliable narrator, and he does keep that promise as he follows Ronald Knox's 10 Commandments of Detective Fiction along with his own "rules."
The dark humor and witty banter of this novel kept me at rapt attention as I devoured this novel. The author winks at readers through the page without quite breaking the fourth wall, and I loved reading into every single "truth" laid out by the characters. Fans of the show Sherlock will likely eat this up.
If you haven't read this yet and enjoy audiobooks, I highly recommend you read it through that format.
Graphic: Murder, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Suicide, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping
Minor: Car accident, Vomit, and Torture
beepbeep101's review against another edition
- 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
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.
Graphic: Torture, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder
Moderate: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Infertility, Suicide, Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Drug use, and Kidnapping
Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Vomit, and Car accident
daniellekat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder
Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Suicide
Minor: Car accident, Blood, Addiction, Alcohol, and Vomit