Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

80 reviews

kim_lommaert's review against another edition

dark relaxing medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

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

dark 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

ronja234's review against another edition

Kvindelig hovedperson som er "bedre" end alle andre og som hele tiden skal hæve sig selv over alle andre. Plottet forsvinder lidt i hendes eget point of view når hun hele tiden skal fortælle at hun er bedre. Det blev trættende efter meget kort tid (pick me girl) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Stalking, Death, Death of parent, Classism, Abandonment, and Murder

atomicbritt's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Murder, Torture, Violence, Body shaming, Classism, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

hannah_steven's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Eating disorder and Drug use

syazahaniss's review

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense 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? No

1.0

The lack of dialogues made it feel very draggy, slow and almost nonfiction-like. The chapters were incredibly long and the British English was also a tad bit difficult to understand, so I was practically dragging myself through the book. Grace herself gave off very arrogant vibes because she looks down on everyone else.

What I thought made the story very disorganized was that her victims seemed very random. I thought it would just be Simon, Janine and Bryony (direct relation) where at least I could see the structure of the killing, but Andrew and the grandparents felt so unrelated. So Grace just killed them off because they were mean people? They barely had any interactions with her; for all she knows they’re nice. Her killing off people she’s never even spoken to made me think she was the evil one here?

Also it kind of annoyed me that every single one of her plans went according to plan. Because realistically, how does one suddenly wake up one day vengeful and deciding to kill her entire family and actually gets away with it with no problems whatsoever?

That said, I don’t know why this book is so popular. I didn’t like it at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Misogyny and Stalking

Minor: Grief

elanuruysal's review against another edition

dark funny 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Car accident, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Eating disorder and Stalking

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

sammyelliott_'s review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

when I realised this was the same premise as Kind Hearts and Coronets (or A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, if you're more theatre than movie) I thought I knew how the book would end. Turns out, I did not. Honeslty, I'm a little annoyed at the ending, but I get why it ended that way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, Classism, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Stalking, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Drug use, and Abandonment

Minor: Eating disorder, Cancer, Drug use, Drug abuse, Blood, and Addiction

nindie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Stalking, Classism, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Grief, Gore, Car accident, Alcoholism, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Incest, Physical abuse, Medical content, and Emotional abuse