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georg_11's review
Moderate: Cancer, Stalking, Death, Drug use, Car accident, and Terminal illness
kim_lommaert's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Abandonment, and Murder
Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, and Death of parent
bookaholic_in_wonderland'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
4.0
Graphic: Murder and Violence
Moderate: Abandonment
Minor: Stalking, Body shaming, Car accident, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Infidelity, Blood, Addiction, Cancer, Death, and Eating disorder
hdhreads's review
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Murder and Death
Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Car accident, and Violence
eleanorryd's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Stalking, Murder, and Violence
Minor: Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Drug use, Sexism, Alcohol, Cancer, and Injury/Injury detail
lily1304's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Murder, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Infidelity
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content
Content notes:skylarkblue1's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.25
The concept is interesting, though pretty bare-bones. Revenge against a family who abandoned you. Except that even after learning they're not all the same, she doesn't give a single crap and kills them all regardless. The abandonment is also iffy at best, her father had an affair with her mother, father didn't want anything to do with them *apparently*. Did she try and contact her father? nope. Did she even verify if the story that he was actually her father was correct? nope.
The misogyny throughout - especially from the main character - is astonishing as well. Constantly belittling women, constantly shaming others' bodies for being "too perfect" or "not perfect enough" and it's just so tiring to read. It could have been a good satire about not judging someone by their looks or whatever, but no there's absolutely 0 commentary of that kind.
The incestuous stuff as well was really iffy to read. Grace's first thought for all the men is just "lets seduce them in one way or another" one of them literally including sex clubs with hard kinks. Yes, she takes who she believes is a close family member to a hard kink sex club. And yes, they do go into a private room. While not overly explicit it's still incredibly awkward and pretty gross.
Her treatment towards others all through the book is just horrific. She blackmails a literal child who *she* asked for help from and he was just going along with things. She has 0 issues manipulating and lying to whoever to get whatever she wants. And none of this is in a "ooh she's so smart and sneaky" way, all of it is in a "if someone actually did this in reality they'd get caught in like, 2 seconds because of how brain dead it all is".
The ending is also very stupid. It's very easy to guess how it ends, the "foreshadowing" isn't very subtle at all. Those "letters" at the end, was honestly just skipping through so much of it because I do not want to read a whole page of random "ooh football talk!" like come on. It had 0 impact or anything, it was just pure filler waffle nonsense for the *climax* and entire twist. Purely "tell don't show".
This isn't a book based in reality, it's very much it's own fantasy world. It's not clever, it's not satire. It's just a book about someone bragging how fantastic and clever they are while being incredibly stupid and aggravating all the way through. The only thing that make me remotely smile was the "bible story that wasn't from the bible" near the start.
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Violence, Misogyny, Car accident, and Body shaming
Moderate: Sexual content, Gore, Drug use, and Eating disorder
Unknown Incestuous Relationships (One party is aware it's incestuous, the other isn't)taleofabibliophile's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual content, Cursing, and Death
Moderate: Classism, Sexism, Cancer, Infidelity, Misogyny, Drug use, and Eating disorder
Minor: Domestic abuse, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual harassment
hannah_steven's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Grief
Minor: Eating disorder and Drug use
tasarla's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I loved reading this in the first person where the narrator is an absolute psycho!
I really like the writing style (though upon reading other reviews it appears to be divisive). The main character is supposed to be hateable and not relatable so if you’re into that this book is a great example of it
Despite the “funny” tag I’d say the book has some amusing moments rather than it actually being funny
The plot in the first half of the book is much stronger than the second half IMO, but I still liked the rest of the book and enjoyed the ending.
The murders are well-described but not gory or disgustingly graphic detail, which I liked because it made an otherwise heavy book feel more light
Normally I feel like books focus too much on romantic side-plots but this one failed in this aspect. Spoiler:
Probably wouldn’t re-read but I did enjoy reading it overall
Graphic: Classism, Car accident, Incest, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Sexual content, Murder, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Forced institutionalization, and Stalking