Reviews tagging 'Murder'

How To Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine

48 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

jennilathrop's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

3.0

This book is fine. Just... fine. The main character, Alice, loves Scream and this book is a pretty solid knock-off of Scream. This is a YA book and I am not a YA, but I feel like Alice was pretty dumb as our hero/narrator. While spending all of her time comparing what would be happening in this moment in a horror movie, she misses every. single. clue pointing at the actual killer. Like, Valentine almost hands Alice a card saying, "The killer is...." but here obsession with horror movie tropes stops her from seeing what's going on.

The writing was fine. I don't think this was a great example of storytelling, but it was't the worst thing I"ve read.

And I did NOT like the ending. I don't mind a vague ending, but this was stupid.

It was Alice's sister Claire all along who just wanted to be famous. And when Alice returns to the present, Clair is alive and everyone else is dead but Alice doesn't know if she agreed to her sisters plan or what is going on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

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