Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Lies by Michael Grant

4 reviews

m4ferglez's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

While I did like this one, I feel like it’s not the best of the saga. The “big twist” feels a bit obvious,

anyone paying attention could see right through Nerreza and the Britney/Drake switch was pretty much telegraphed from the beginning

, but I guess that’s what you get with middle grade fiction. 

Very interesting and bone chillingly realistic as usual, though I feel like at this point in the series when the author keeps introducing new elements it begs the question of how nobody had noticed or thought about it before 

<(I’m talking about the island, but there’s other similar elements along the way)

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Overall still a pretty good book, I’m already starting the next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Lesbophobia

loz1327's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

jack_holmes06's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Blood

reginacordium's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Vomit

this is the third book in the series, so at this point the violence and body horror of the series should be obvious. However, it definitely steps up every book. This book was more Everything than the last, and the next will be More that this book. It is important to keep this in mind while deciding to move on or not