Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

79 reviews

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

livimarie's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Car accident, Death, and Violence

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

kam_be's review against another edition

dark funny reflective fast-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: Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Death, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

Minor: Incest and Panic attacks/disorders

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

headstuckinabook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Addiction and Alcohol

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