Reviews tagging 'Torture'

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

27 reviews

geerbeer's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted 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

3.75

Leuk om zo te lezen, maar niet heel vernieuwend voor iemand die ontzettend veel crime/horror/thriller films & series gezien heeft 🤷🏻‍♀️😊

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Drug use, Grief, Violence, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Car accident, Death, Stalking, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Gore

mummamyers's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Vomit, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual assault, and Torture

stindex's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

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

1.0

The author makes me sad. They’ve apparently tried to push all the things they hate into this book and it just makes this feel like a boomer whining about basically everything. For a ”feminist” main character the mc sure spent a lot of time hating on women in a very pick me -girlish style. Body shaming was also very present whenever describing anyone else but the mc or their love interest. The premise was great but the book is an absolute train wreck from the start.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Stalking, Sexual content, Abandonment, Sexism, Misogyny, Death of parent, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Torture, Confinement, Car accident, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Grief, and Terminal illness

esv_'s review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, Murder, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Cursing, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Violence, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Infidelity, and Blood

Minor: Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Eating disorder, Sexism, Suicide, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Incest, and Mental illness

katie_33's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Torture, Stalking, and Violence

abi_sarah's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

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

4.0

Took me a while to get into it, but I really loved this book! 

Bella Mackie’s writing was so witty and painfully honest. The familial annoyances that Grace felt throughout were so relatable - she just had an extreme response to them! 😅 

I felt like the first deaths happened a little to early, so there was a then a bit of a lull for me where I lost interest a bit. It soon picked ip again though and held my interest until the very end. The last 35-30% really had me gripped - there were just so many new twists and turns that I just wanted to keep reading! 

The only thing I would stay that stops it from being 5 stars, is that sometimes I found Grace’s reasoning behind her murders a little shallow? Maybe it was just me, but a bit of believability escaped there for me.

Excellent writing from Bella Mackie, highly entertaining! Great story-telling too! Loved the plot twists, so imaginative!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, Car accident, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Blood, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Sexual assault

veritea's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Classism, Torture, Abandonment, Body shaming, and Death

Minor: Incest

emmajh91's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, and Torture

ladynavalon's review against another edition

dark funny slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Car accident, Suicide, Torture, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Murder, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Cancer, and Violence

El plot twist es

lñno es ella quien mata a su padre y a su hermana, sino que resulta que tiene un hermano que le escri e una carta consedandole los crimenes. La llevan a la cárcel por marta a la novia de su amigo, pero consiguen sacarla

atomicbritt's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Murder, Torture, Violence, Body shaming, Classism, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship