Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

592 reviews

theangrystackrat's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

2.5

I have a lot of feelings about this book. It was powerful and sad. It was well written. I guess it did what it was supposed to do (evoke a lot of emotion and keep me guessing about the MC pretty much until the end). But I can't say that I enjoyed it.

DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T LIKE DEATH OF ANIMALS OR PEOPLE. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Toxic friendship

cassyneu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.25

I'm way late to this party 
Late enough that I knew there was some kind of crazy twist. Something to tear me apart. And I thought I was prepared for it; but alas I was not. 

I went into this book looking for the twist, thinking I could figure it out like I do with so many other plots but I didn't. It genuinely caught me off guard, now I can't wait to find a copy of Family Of Liars 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death

medini_l's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

kotletka_polina's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

I reread it for the prequel. 
I read this book back in 2016 and was confused to see this book blew up on TikTok in 2022?? 
Idk a lot of people have strong feelings about this book, I remember reading it for the first time and I was flabbergasted: the plot twist, the writing style. But I was like 12?? It’s a pretty disturbing and sad book but it’s y/a so idk why people expect it to be great. 
Personally I didn’t quite get the whole point when I read it for the first time, I didn’t understand the ending and overall was pretty much confused for the most part, but reading it now I cried. It’s not the best book I’ve ever read but it’s decent quick read the plays with your head. Nice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

sycamore22's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Holy shit. Truly felt like I was just as confused as Cadence about everything until the mystery unfolded. Binged the entire audiobook in one sitting. This is a riveting, emotional story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Death

Minor: Animal death, Racism, and Dementia

A grandmother dies, some family dogs die, and

some young people die

. The grandfather gets dementia. Parents drink to cope with loss of the grandmother (and other family matters). The grandfather with dementia commits several racist microaggressions towards Gat.

violet_viper's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Racism

rene_reads02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Plot twist of the century. I really didn’t see it coming a hundred miles away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

angeldevoursliterature's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-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? Yes

3.5

 Woah. That was an unexpected twist. I noticed the pacing of the first 3/4 of the story was slow... abt midway I was always like 'when will there be a sudden turn of events or smth' :|
Some parts were kinda tedious but I still managed to read through them. It was a good book though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Cursing

katiearcher's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I had no idea what to expect going in to this and I’m so glad. Cadence, our main character, is a confused mess after her accident and takes us on a journey to piece together her missing memories. It’s a story you have to experience for yourself! The writing style is not exactly my favorite but the story, mystery, and characters are what led me to 4 stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

stripy_gloves's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

1.0

Really short chapter 87 for only a  225 page book. It was badly written but had a good plot twist at the end 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Dysphoria