Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

129 reviews

azalya01's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

What an interesting mystery! I really enjoyed the unique style of this book. The narration is fresh and keeps you excited for the next chapter. I highly recommend this book if you like a good mystery that surrounds interesting and sympathetic characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

Minor: Torture, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

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: 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

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

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

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

cursed10fold's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Police brutality, Child death, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Infertility and Infidelity

redur's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted 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? No

5.0

What a good book. A classic mystery set in modern times. And very meta, if you like meta humor. It knows what it is and talks about it often. A very entertaining read and a great mystery that doesn't cheat!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Torture, Vomit, Physical abuse, Suicide, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Self harm, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

ecstarr's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Murder

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

boba_n_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• 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

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone has to be one of my favorite audiobooks. The narrator was amazing, and this writing style translated so well to the spoken word.

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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Car accident, Vomit, and Torture

itsbumley's review

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Addiction, Infertility, Mental illness, and Vomit

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

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

Minor: Alcohol