Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

6 reviews

savreads28's review

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Death, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Gore, and Death of parent

shiana's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I love Criminal Minds and this gave me the same feeling of tense and mystery! I want more books in this series so bad!!!!! Just more cases and more for the characters to solve. The characters felt so real and even though they are wicked smart and doing things they should definitely not be doing as a teenagers, they still had the stubborness and such that teens have. This book is perfect if you love cozy mystery but with more plot, and higher stakes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Murder

kaitlynnnng's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

Note: I didn’t read the novella at the end. I might someday, but I’m not super interested in doing so at the moment.

I’m actually so mad about the ending. I’m crying. I’m angry. I’m disappointed. I was enjoying the story, less than I enjoyed the other books in the series, but I wasn’t complaining; however, the ending ruined the whole book for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

ashleynp24's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Animal death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, and Torture

parochialch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

5.0

It twost and it turn and then it do like a 180 and spin round again the ENDDD

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Child death, and Stalking

ong's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

I pride myself in being able to predict where things are going in shows, movies, books. This book literally had me in the first half, thinking I’d guessed where it was going. But holy shit. NOTHING could’ve prepared me for that ending.

The best part of this series is how it keeps me guessing & on my toes. And the fact that the teens sounds like real human beings, not way too exaggerated, if a little fucked up. Very 3 dimensional characters. The plot flows real well too. Definitely one of my fav series now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death of parent

Moderate: Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Self harm, Drug abuse, Grief, Torture, Violence, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape, Child abuse, Child death, and Pregnancy