Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

52 reviews

lc_27's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Car accident

ranjanireviewsreads's review against another edition

Boring. It was okay-ish for the first 1 hr but then it was so boring. I really struggled to keep going. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident

emperorluzco's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The murders are interesting.
The twist at the end came out of nowhere.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Murder, Stalking, Abandonment, Blood, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy

yafi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Death, Cursing, Murder, and Confinement

Moderate: Abandonment, Grief, Misogyny, Blood, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

goth_hearted's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Torture, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

The premise was very promising, and I was quite hooked on the story despite it not being as funny as it was said to be. Yes, it was funny at times, but oftentimes the 'humour' relied on (internalized) misogyny and/or fatphobia and/or belittling mental health issues and eating disorders — this is also why I found the book's feminist takes to be quite hypocritical. I hated Grace as a character, she was so insufferable, annoying, petty and too bitter over the smallest of things, but I stuck up with her because — well — you can't quite love a serial killer anyways. I liked the ending, it was justified and fit perfectly with my dislike on Grace, though I also must say that such a plot twist should have been foreshadowed better. A murder mystery is no fun if it doesn't make you feel dumb for not realising the answer earlier; it shouldn't come so out of the blue (as in this case) that it feels literally impossible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Grief, Murder, Death of parent, and Stalking

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Violence, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

lottselgar's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.5

idk how to explain it other than at some moments it felt like she wanted to be misogynistic so bad for no reason

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, Body horror, Murder, Violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Abandonment, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

anxieteaandbiscuits12's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I enjoyed the plot of the book and I was not expecting the ending but I didn’t feel like it was well written or executed, sometimes I felt like I was struggling through chapters, for example the email at the end was unexpected but was a bit of a slog to get through, especially so close to the end of the book. It also didn’t help that the book was told through a narrator who was unlikable and thought they were better than those they interacted with (the book did give a lot of indication that Grace was a narcissistic sociopath)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Grief

annabulkowski's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy, Gore, Classism, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Alcohol, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Cancer, Drug use, Suicide, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Eating disorder, Confinement, and Child death

celina_2604's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Blood, Physical abuse, Death, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Sexual violence