Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

137 reviews

alex_e_liddiard's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Death of parent

lilawsahar's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

2.0

Kind of disappointed. I thought it was going to be more mysterious and exciting, but the suspense was greater than the reality of what happened. The ending is more confusing than clarifying.

I hate when books read like realistic fiction then end up having a sci-fi twist at the end. Also, I think the author should have foreshadowed less and communicated more about Vera’s past. It would have made the book more interesting along the journey. Only the last 50 pages were “interesting” and it wasn’t interesting enough to get me to recommend the book. 

Questions left unanswered:

- Was Francis’s compulsion for murder driven by Daphne?
- Why didn’t the house reveal itself sooner?
- Will Vera continue killing people?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, Toxic relationship, Torture, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, and Violence

s4r41d's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent

princessraya'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book was not what I expected, and unfortunately not in a good way. There were things I liked, but the ending really fell flat and it was more paranormal than I thought it would be based on the description. Didn’t hate it but it felt like something was missing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Torture, Blood, Confinement, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, Gaslighting, and Terminal illness

alek_n's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

i just know vera would love monster by eminem ft. rihanna

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Domestic abuse, Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Body horror

venusianbabie's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Murder

karly_ackley's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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

Absolutely horrifying! But in a can’t look away type of way!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Murder, Death, Torture, Gore, and Blood

wyabook234's review

dark emotional tense

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Torture, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse

micallab's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Violence, Death, Blood, Physical abuse, Murder, Vomit, and Torture

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

4.5

From the acknowledgements: “Many of us spend our lives searching for something too big to truly name, something that is often (inadequately) summarized as ‘unconditional love.’ If you have gone out seeking this enormous thing, and found yourself in danger; if you have spent any part of your life thinking that something monstrous was normal or inevitable; if you have lost some part of yourself in the process of looking for a place that feels like home - I hope you know that you have always deserved a better kind of love than that.” 

Docked half a star because I am too dumb to appreciate all of the nuance in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Torture