Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

151 reviews

laheath'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed this book which others have compared to a dark twist on The Breakfast Club (I'm of that generation that can relate to and appreciate that reference). When a strict teacher sends 5 students to detention and 1 of them dies shortly after it begins, all are suspects. The characters represent several issues that teens are actually facing, some better than others. The story is somewhat predictable, but still enjoyable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Outing, Bullying, Sexual content, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Drug abuse

badvision's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Self harm, Suicide, Death, Murder, Outing, Homophobia, and Infidelity

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Cursing, and Infidelity

Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Addiction, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Car accident

flaminhotcheeto's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, and Emotional abuse

chloesweeney's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Murder, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying, Toxic friendship, and Alcoholism

laney_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This was an amazing book, some of the heavier topics in the book were brought in very nicely. I give this a 4.5 only because I kinda guessed who the killer was but I wasn't really serious about it bc the book did a great job of making you unsure!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Bullying, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Homophobia and Outing

This book handles a lot of heavy topics but does have resources in the back of the book for the most major topics!

josieeeeec's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book starts off with such a two cliché premises (both of which I tend to like): a murder mystery with multiple unlikely yet all equally likely suspects and Breakfast Club-esque character archetypes. As you read you realize that beyond surface level introductions, these characters are so multidimensional with deeply relatable insecurities, experiences, and fears. Their stories made my heart ache. I absolutely loved every last second of it, down to the end I couldn’t fully predict no matter how much I mulled it over. It’s one of those books you start and finish in under a few days, if not in one sitting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Cancer, and Physical abuse

Minor: Mass/school shootings

laura_berger's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Self harm, Outing, Mass/school shootings, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Grief, Car accident, and Alcoholism

emmacb16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

This was a very good book, and probably the first book where I have actually been interested in every single POV. 

In the beginning, I loved how she set it up so that you didn’t know what each of them were trying to hide and no one trusted anyone. This made it interesting when you got to read it from all of the different perspectives. 

At the end, Jake make me want to throw the book…but I guess that’s expected.

All of the stories pulled together very nicely, and I like how much the characters developed by the end of the book. Very excited to read the next book!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Drug use, Suicide, Murder, Bullying, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Self harm and Transphobia

godhatesgreta's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

adibasultana's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I truly wish one of them actually killed Simon rather than this whole thing being orchestrated by Simon as a dramatic school shooting-like suicide. Imagine the police never investigated how the peanut oil ended up in his body and all his planning was for no reason.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Murder, and Outing

Moderate: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Bullying, Alcoholism, Self harm, Mass/school shootings, and Emotional abuse