nooripoori'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? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Murder, and Violence
caffeineandcatnapsreads's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
How To Survive Your Murder, by Danielle Valentine.
3.5-4/5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
TRIGGER WARNINGS-
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Death, murder, blood
It’s been one year since Claire’s death in the maze on Halloween night and her sister, Alices’ life has fallen apart. Their parents are now divorced, Alice and her mom moved into an apartment, and Alice no longer talks to her former best friends and she’s being forced to go to court as she was the only witness to her sister’s murder.
On the first day of Claire’s murder trial Alice is in the washroom at the court house where she gets knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike. Alice wakes up to find that it is exactly Halloween night the year previous and Claire is still alive and Alice has until midnight to solve Claires murder and find the real killer.
I powered through this to get it finished in time for Halloween night and I was not expecting that ending! I really enjoyed this read and the twists and turns. It’d make for a good duology. Though the main character irked me a bit lol I wasn’t able to keep up to speed with the movie aspect of the book as I’m not into movies/ t.v so I don’t know next to anything about the actors/actress.
3.5-4/5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
TRIGGER WARNINGS-
.
.
.
Death, murder, blood
It’s been one year since Claire’s death in the maze on Halloween night and her sister, Alices’ life has fallen apart. Their parents are now divorced, Alice and her mom moved into an apartment, and Alice no longer talks to her former best friends and she’s being forced to go to court as she was the only witness to her sister’s murder.
On the first day of Claire’s murder trial Alice is in the washroom at the court house where she gets knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike. Alice wakes up to find that it is exactly Halloween night the year previous and Claire is still alive and Alice has until midnight to solve Claires murder and find the real killer.
I powered through this to get it finished in time for Halloween night and I was not expecting that ending! I really enjoyed this read and the twists and turns. It’d make for a good duology. Though the main character irked me a bit lol I wasn’t able to keep up to speed with the movie aspect of the book as I’m not into movies/ t.v so I don’t know next to anything about the actors/actress.
akkikofnu's review against another edition
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
bethersjayne's review against another edition
dark
tense
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? No
4.0
petitchou92's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
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
4.0
sri228's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
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? It's complicated
3.0
alexabookish's review against another edition
5.0
okay first, PLEASE do not judge based on this cover. it’s definitely not the worst cover, but in my opinion, it makes it look a lot more juvenile than it is. okay onto my thoughts: i
have a weakness for teen slasher books. i LOVE the idea of them, but i have not found one that i have actually thought was good. until this one!
there are a couple thing that make it stand out to me. the first is that there is a supernatural element to it. not ghosts or anything, but a supernatural time element. i’m not into books that are supernatural usually, but the one exception to that is books that play with time and time travel or time loops. i LOVE to see it.
i loved that horror movie and true crime references, i enjoyed the mc a lot, and i thought the writing was great for what the book it–a teen slasher. there were a lot of parts about the writing and structure and planning that i really admired. as a beginner thriller writer, i got to the end of this book and thought “damn, there are so many thing about this that i hope i can capture in my book” i did kind of predict the end, but not in a bad way, if that makes sense. as i got closer to the end, i had a thought about how it would be really cool if the author would be able to pull of a certain character being the killer, but i didn’t know how it would happen or even make sense. but i got to the end, and the author did pull off the reveal, and everything came together in a way where i was like “ooohhhh that’s how it all happened. of course, there were all these clues” which is EXACTLY how i want to feel at the end of a mystery. i want to surprised, but have clues to point to that i remember from earlier in the book that makes it all come together. reveals that come out of the blue are my pet peeve, and luckily that didn’t happen here.
have a weakness for teen slasher books. i LOVE the idea of them, but i have not found one that i have actually thought was good. until this one!
there are a couple thing that make it stand out to me. the first is that there is a supernatural element to it. not ghosts or anything, but a supernatural time element. i’m not into books that are supernatural usually, but the one exception to that is books that play with time and time travel or time loops. i LOVE to see it.
i loved that horror movie and true crime references, i enjoyed the mc a lot, and i thought the writing was great for what the book it–a teen slasher. there were a lot of parts about the writing and structure and planning that i really admired. as a beginner thriller writer, i got to the end of this book and thought “damn, there are so many thing about this that i hope i can capture in my book” i did kind of predict the end, but not in a bad way, if that makes sense. as i got closer to the end, i had a thought about how it would be really cool if the author would be able to pull of a certain character being the killer, but i didn’t know how it would happen or even make sense. but i got to the end, and the author did pull off the reveal, and everything came together in a way where i was like “ooohhhh that’s how it all happened. of course, there were all these clues” which is EXACTLY how i want to feel at the end of a mystery. i want to surprised, but have clues to point to that i remember from earlier in the book that makes it all come together. reveals that come out of the blue are my pet peeve, and luckily that didn’t happen here.
lindseymitchell9's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
thereadingpan's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Hated the ending, not fleshed out at all. And the killer was clear about 2/3 of the way through.
freyawills's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
6/10, light YA slasher book and the ending was unexpected but not jaw-dropping