Reviews tagging 'Grief'

משפחה של שקרנים by E. Lockhart, א' לוקהארט

94 reviews

alexistheauthor's review against another edition

1.5

dark hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I don't think I've ever rated a book 1.5 stars. I genuinely tried to get through it, but about 40% of the way through, I just couldn't. It was too much like We Were Liars. Don't get me wrong - We Were Liars was a really good book, but this one just felt forced. Like, if you want to write a prequel, maybe lay off the ghost theme? Or make it a little bit different? I don't know. That's just my own opinion. I hated it and it ended up being a DNF. I would much rather just read a summary of the book then have to suffer through it.

Edit: I read the summary, and holy crap. It really did get good after I stopped. Which kind of makes me regret my decision, but what the hell was that ending? Like, what? I'm not gonna pick up the book again just to read Carrie's thoughts, but it really was just getting good after I stopped. So if you're looking to pick up this book again, just be warned that it's really slow throughout the first half, but in the second half, it gets really really good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Grief, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol

alealanapemb's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault

Minor: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief

ms_smith's review against another edition

3.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I don't even know where to start. This book was okay, I guess. Nothing special. It started very slowly for me, I'd say I was rather bored until passing the first 100 pages, which is, again as I mentioned with We Were Liars, almost half of the book. I wouldn't say that this was a bad book to read, but I was waiting for something more to come. I'm the type of person who must connect to and like the characters to some extent to stay invested in the story, but this is not that type of a book. Carrie was neutral for me; sometimes I was annoyed with her, sometimes I thought she was over-dramatic (especially with the parts where Lockhart put unnecessary line breaks...why?!), even sorry for her, but mostly I felt really distant from any of the characters of this book. I guess, maybe this was the writer's intention, but this type of writing just doesn't tick the boxes for me. Again, this wasn't a bad reading experience, but I'll probably forget about it in a couple of weeks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Slavery, Lesbophobia

roseamillerg's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Grief, Murder

tobiii's review against another edition

2.5

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Blood, Grief, Alcohol

charlottedow's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Second book I’ve read in a row about rich young people getting away with murder, idk what that says about me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder

teamlauren11's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

bookshelfofbee's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Sexual harassment

Minor: Homophobia, Self harm, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

thesecretsapphic's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Grief, Classism

dramagirl2003's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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just as good as the first one in a completely different way!
age rating — 14+

thoughts while reading

p5: yeah no kidding

p15: i wondered that! i knew there was

no rosemary

in We Were Liars

p21: this family physically hurts me with all their emotional masking

p22: please don’t get addicted

p23: there is literally no pleasing harris

p25: yuhuh what did i say. 16 is way too young to have no one watching you

p50: it’s probably meant to be because of the codeine that

she sees rose

p55: carrie and cadence are kindred spirits, and not completely in a good way

p67: pfeff is totally the one she crushes on

p79: two single guys, three and a half single girls. i can almost taste the potential drama

p92: $100 BOOK VOUCHER?? heck yes!!

p151: don’t tell me

she’s hallucinating the boys too

p163: isn’t this the story about locke from The Cruel Prince? 

p169: i knew something like this would happen

p175: erm not quite the twist i was expecting

p179: gosh bess is brave, i’d be too terrified to talk to my sibling like that if they had carrie’s issues in case they spiralled and offed themselves. maybe it’s because she’s the youngest so she doesn’t quite understand the seriousness of this situation beyond her own feelings. i’m not saying bess is wrong to say something, i just couldn’t do it

p196: pfeff was never gonna give you what you need, not when he either has a very low opinion of himself or just doesn’t care

p201: really REALLY not what i was expecting

p206: omg it’s agggtm all over again

p220: OH

p247: nooo not

pfeff haunting her now too!

p263:

IT WAS CARRIE WHO KILLED HIM???

p273:

it was HARRIS who moved the board!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault