Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao

48 reviews

sharlottetheshark's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicide

Minor: Fatphobia, Blood, Antisemitism, and Medical content

izzyslittlelibrary's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Racism, Xenophobia, Blood, and Alcohol

themoodreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

xiekaili's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Mental illness, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, and Drug use

mersymerci's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

itzbrianna's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

This mystery is incredibly tantalizing and will leave you frustrated, angry, and maybe even a little set on revenge.

How we fall apart is a tale of how destructive it can be to be the child of immigrant parents. It forces you to come to terms with all the ways your parents may have harmed you despite their love for you. And it puts a mirror up to the delusion immigrants drink in when coming to the United States. 

Though I enjoyed this book, I was quite disappointed with the ending on how it was left with two of the characters. One particular character deserves to be in JAIL. And the other let their minimal character development flush down the drain. 

Katie Zhao did an amazing job with her descriptions, attention to detail, and a shocking twist at the climax of this story. Where Zhao and possibly the editors have fallen short, is the character development for the main characters. There was a lot of potential to have certain people grow by the conclusion of this book. Though I love the theme of revenge throughout this book nonetheless. 

If you are someone who thinks about revenge fantasies and loves a murder mystery, this novel is for you! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Racism

unhxly's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Enjoyable plot but I wanted more, for example classicism and privelege was touched on but not talked about as indepth as I would've liked. The ending was pretty underwhelming.

We barely know the main villain, so the emotional impact wasn't there.

Enjoyed that there was a diverse cast, need to see more of that in the dark academia space.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Suicide and Xenophobia

tahsintries's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

r_ietvald_j23's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Adult/minor relationship

ao3simp's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Mental illness