Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

79 reviews

risemini's review against another edition

dark funny 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Sexual content, Death, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

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

bunv's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

1.0

Easily the worst book I've read this year. With a main character that is equal parts dull and entirely unlikeable, there's just no reason to stay engaged when the entire book is written in her perspective. I bought this book because the premise seemed promising but the amount of unnecessary self-righteous rants about how much Grace hates everything and everyone got unbearable pretty much immediately. After I had to endure 50 pages about frogs I was about ready to tap out, had I not invested a significant amount of energy into getting to this point. The poor excuse for a twist towards the end was only a small light at the end of the unbearably long tunnel. 
Bonus mention for the 2 times I had to read the words "my sex" followed up by an observation about how much our main character hates other women despite calling herself a feminist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Drug use, Death of parent, Alcohol, Vomit, Suicide, Stalking, Classism, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Car accident, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Fatphobia

Minor: Cancer, Body shaming, Ableism, and Biphobia

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

meeklovestoread's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.25

The amount of times this book put me to sleep should be criminal. I'm not the type where I have to like the characters to like a book, but my goodness I found Grace to be so intolerable and always constantly overly pessimistic and judgemental of literally everyone. As someone that seems to set on murdering these privileged peoole she seems just as pretentious as they are. The twist at the end still left some unanswered as to what happens to Grace.

And the introduction of Harry felt kinda rushed. I don't know. It just felt pretty random. Him being Simon's son and having him be the one to kill Simon. I don't know how I feel about that considering throughout most of the story we were in Grace's POV.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual content, Murder, Abandonment, Stalking, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Grief, and Alcoholism

Minor: Cursing, Car accident, Sexism, and Violence

missmali's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Car accident, Classism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

laracroft2001's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Death of parent, Car accident, Classism, Death, and Cancer

Minor: Death of parent, Body shaming, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Incest, and Eating disorder

marieke17's review against another edition

funny 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Body shaming, Hate crime, Murder, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Bullying, Car accident, Sexual content, Stalking, Gaslighting, Violence, and Pedophilia

matthiasreads's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Alcohol, Misogyny, Drug use, Confinement, Classism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Eating disorder, Cancer, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

apollos_shelf's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Stalking

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug use, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Car accident

Minor: Classism, Blood, Suicide, and Death of parent