Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

83 reviews

holliesatchell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Incest, Sexual content, Death of parent, Drug use, Murder, Grief, Misogyny, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

sammyelliott_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

when I realised this was the same premise as Kind Hearts and Coronets (or A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, if you're more theatre than movie) I thought I knew how the book would end. Turns out, I did not. Honeslty, I'm a little annoyed at the ending, but I get why it ended that way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, Classism, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Stalking, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Drug use, and Abandonment

Minor: Eating disorder, Cancer, Drug use, Drug abuse, Blood, and Addiction

nindie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Stalking, Classism, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Grief, Gore, Car accident, Alcoholism, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Incest, Physical abuse, Medical content, and Emotional abuse

mariethem1lf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

The timeline is so confusing (and you don't even realise until about halfway through)? pretty good but

I hated the ending and Harry seemed like an incredible jackass. runs in the family though ig and I appreciated the familial similarities between Simon, Harry and Grace.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Stalking, Alcohol, Car accident, Classism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use and Cancer

mgcalder's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

An easy read with an interesting premise. However the conclusion to the book felt a little rushed and a bit cheap. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Car accident, and Murder

rwims's review against another edition

dark slow-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

3.0

Grace is out for revenge against her father and his family we follow as she attempts to make her father suffer. Very long chapters and slow in places. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

introverted_reads's review against another edition

dark funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Infidelity, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death, Cursing, Car accident, Cancer, Body shaming, Abandonment, Death of parent, Violence, Terminal illness, Stalking, Misogyny, Mental illness, Classism, and Child death

sorcha's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, Abandonment, Sexual content, Mental illness, Cancer, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness, Blood, Alcohol, Addiction, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Drug use

builtoutofbooks's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

2.25

If I hadn’t been listening to the audio book I doubt I would’ve finished this. I found Grace incredibly annoying and narcissistic, bordering on sociopathic. The book was branded as funny but I couldn’t find any humour in it, it was mostly cruel jibes towards fat people and those with eating disorders. Heavy content warning for fatphobia and body shaming. I don’t usually pick up popular contemporary novels but it was May’s choice for book club. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Car accident

Minor: Grief

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