Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

This Is How I Lied by Heather Gudenkauf

3 reviews

afasanello's review

dark medium-paced

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

Just throw it away. Every person in this story sucks, except Henry! So many things feel unresolved. No follow up on 

Colin being weird????

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Bullying, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Gaslighting, Infertility, Gore, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Awful characters. No thanks.

annelihghh's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Sexual violence, Animal death, Grief, Miscarriage, Rape, Terminal illness, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Vomit, Violence, Blood, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Dementia, Gore, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Abortion

zoe_archambault's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

Pretty good overall, tense and a twist I half expected but not in the way it unfolded, which was a nice surprise.
The writing style was a little weird and the descriptions of the main character’s thoughts and actions felt very much like they were written by a middle-aged white man which threw me off and took me out of the narrative a lot.
But overall pretty decent and a quick fast-paced read that, despite the weird writing style, kept me coming back and wanting to find out more as the twisted story unfolded. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit