Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

82 reviews

pierreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Mass/school shootings, and Child death

Moderate: Bullying and Medical content

Minor: Sexual content and Animal death

goblinghost_39's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Death, Mental illness, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, and Gun violence

iiisabelle's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Death, and Cursing

Minor: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, and Genocide

ellilo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Body horror, Child death, Child abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

florenceassetto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

absolutely HARROWING book, emotionally wrecking and very dark but i would recommend! could not stop thinking about it for weeks after reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings and Death

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

lowkey very disturbing but it did actually have an effect on me and it is so well written, definitely a thriller i would recommend!

hysrae's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mass/school shootings, Death, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Bullying, Eating disorder, Incest, Medical content, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

mmccombs's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

2.5

What a heavy and kind of obnoxious book! I did enjoy the mood and the way it was organized, but it was just entirely too long. It felt like a slog to get through, I did not need Eva’s opinions on literally everything, we know she’s kind of the worst so let’s keep it moving! Lots of r-words and racist and homophobic and fatphobic things in this book, too. Which again, Eva and her family are not good people so all of those things made that more obvious, but after a while it just got old.  I think the heart of this story is a compelling one, but I just didn’t care for much of the execution.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Violence, Murder, and Child death

owls_rainbow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mass/school shootings, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia, Fatphobia, and Racism

malia7's review against another edition

dark slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings

klwpvfc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Sexual content, Murder, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Violence