Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

44 reviews

holliesatchell's review

challenging dark emotional tense 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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Incest, Sexual content, Death of parent, Drug use, Murder, Grief, Misogyny, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

jennabird06's review

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

Minor: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Blood, and Cancer

signelinnea's review

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

I think Grace's type of character is enjoyable to read about for a certain type of person which, unfortunately, I am not. For me, Grace read like a "I'm not like other girls"-girl and was critizising other people, especially women, throughout the entire book in a way I didn't  like.  

The book also felt very slow. There was a lot of build up to the murders that I feel like could have been shortened quite a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Infidelity

introverted_reads's review

dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Infidelity, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death, Cursing, Car accident, Cancer, Body shaming, Abandonment, Death of parent, Violence, Terminal illness, Stalking, Misogyny, Mental illness, Classism, and Child death

yafi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Death, Cursing, Murder, and Confinement

Moderate: Abandonment, Grief, Misogyny, Blood, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

keishac13's review

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Violence, Terminal illness, Grief, Sexual violence, Murder, Misogyny, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Eating disorder

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

The premise was very promising, and I was quite hooked on the story despite it not being as funny as it was said to be. Yes, it was funny at times, but oftentimes the 'humour' relied on (internalized) misogyny and/or fatphobia and/or belittling mental health issues and eating disorders — this is also why I found the book's feminist takes to be quite hypocritical. I hated Grace as a character, she was so insufferable, annoying, petty and too bitter over the smallest of things, but I stuck up with her because — well — you can't quite love a serial killer anyways. I liked the ending, it was justified and fit perfectly with my dislike on Grace, though I also must say that such a plot twist should have been foreshadowed better. A murder mystery is no fun if it doesn't make you feel dumb for not realising the answer earlier; it shouldn't come so out of the blue (as in this case) that it feels literally impossible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Grief, Murder, Death of parent, and Stalking

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Violence, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

lottselgar's review

dark fast-paced

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

2.5

idk how to explain it other than at some moments it felt like she wanted to be misogynistic so bad for no reason

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, Body horror, Murder, Violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Abandonment, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

bunv's review

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

Easily the worst book I've read this year. With a main character that is equal parts dull and entirely unlikeable, there's just no reason to stay engaged when the entire book is written in her perspective. I bought this book because the premise seemed promising but the amount of unnecessary self-righteous rants about how much Grace hates everything and everyone got unbearable pretty much immediately. After I had to endure 50 pages about frogs I was about ready to tap out, had I not invested a significant amount of energy into getting to this point. The poor excuse for a twist towards the end was only a small light at the end of the unbearably long tunnel. 
Bonus mention for the 2 times I had to read the words "my sex" followed up by an observation about how much our main character hates other women despite calling herself a feminist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Drug use, Death of parent, Alcohol, Vomit, Suicide, Stalking, Classism, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Car accident, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Fatphobia

Minor: Cancer, Body shaming, Ableism, and Biphobia

rrenreads's review against another edition

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? Yes

3.5

the title was interesting and the plot idea sounds cool but the main character was fucking insufferable. being stuck in her mind the entire time wasn't fun; the fun parts were when she actually murders her family members, the rest of her thoughts not really. feeling conflicted about the ending tbh, i don't hate it but i don't love it...?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Eating disorder