Reviews tagging 'Blood'

How To Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine

34 reviews

audrey_killion's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

this book has the most ups and downs i have ever seen and will keep you on your toes constantly 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Medical trauma and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident

kassidyreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Abandonment, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Alcoholism

jenn_reads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This has a perfectly reasonable ending if you're into horror, but it wasn't satisfying for me.

Otherwise, I appreciated the twists and turns throughout the rest of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

jai_bear96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Really fun book, lots of red herrings and twists

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Gore

lucy_jan_smith's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Gore, and Stalking

em_no_el30's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Death, and Body horror

lorenewescott's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Grief, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide attempt, Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Infidelity

disguisedposer's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

If you like YA books and/or slasher films, this is for you. I gave it 4.5*. I'd never read anything by this author before, but I'll be looking up more of her work. It was very fast-paced and engrossing; procedural (for a slasher) without being too predictable and staying a little meta - think Scream movies, but updated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Medical trauma

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

bookdragonkatie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Violence, and Murder

jamiee_f's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

This was an interesting time travel twist on the final girl trope. If you like horror tropes and movies, it might be worth a read.

However, the ending kind of fucked it for me, the sister was SO evil for kind of no reason? I felt like the end merited maybe a sequel or an epilogue, but it was not a very satisfying ending for you. I get that her dad was being a sleazeball, but to turn into a chainsaw murderer?? There were a lot of plot holes but this was still a dramatic romp that kept me on the edge of my seat. I didn't expect the ultimate reveal of the murderer on my first read through, but in hindsight I guess it is the only explanation. Meh, unfortunately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Gore, and Blood