Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

When I'm Dead by Hannah Morrissey

8 reviews

milpeaches's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This was a pretty entertaining read. I wouldn’t call it ground breaking like I would call Sager. A bit disappointed about the open-door spice scene. It felt like it just didn’t belong. I figured out who the BBEG was pretty early but it didn’t make the ride less enjoyable. 
Entertaining summer thriller, might pick up another of Morrissey’s work in the future.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, and Suicide

Minor: Body shaming

katk1ndl3's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I'm jot a huge mystery reader, so while this book did keep my attention I didn't really like it. I liked that I couldn't figure out until the last 50 pages who had killed the girls and kidnapped Chloe. But i didn't like that as soon as you found out they got her back so quick with like no obstacles. It was too quick.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

cyndi1966's review

dark mysterious tense

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Animal death

wytnie's review

fast-paced

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

2.75

I liked the book but plot wise it felt very rushed to me, events that would happen in one day felt like weeks. I also feel like Rowan wasn't thought all the way through character wise, or at least it wasn't thought through how she would actually handle certain situations. She has a moment where it feels like she does a 180 and its like "where did this come from?". I think the book is good but I also feel like the writer just really wanted to get to the ending and put most of her efforts there. The rest of the characters where written fine I just had problems with the 180 it felt like Rowan did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

rosesandstuff's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

I had a blast reading this and never wanted to put it down!! There were one or two loose ends I don’t feel like were wrapped up perfectly but I can live with that. Perfectly set up a lot of suspicion, a great read. 
There was a bit of repetition… like during the autopsies and a lot of Rowan’s chapters toward the middle, I was getting really sick of reading her perspective. It only picked up when new evidence was introduced and then I could get back into it.
 If you read a lot of thriller / murder mysteries, you’ll probably figure out the killer faster than I did. 
Lastly, I had NO IDEA this was the third book in a series, definitely reads as a stand alone but I’m curious how it would be different if I read the previous books. 

My biggest qualm was I feel like the killer was introduced too late? But that may be a preference thing, also I didn’t love the weirdly placed short smut scene? Just took me out of the mystery for a minute, especially because they jump right back into finding the killer.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fatphobia, Suicide, and Medical trauma

caseylovett's review

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, and Abandonment

kris386's review

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Abandonment

vj_thompson's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Hannah Morrissey’s writing is so lyrical and beautiful. I was hesitant to pick up the book but I’m glad I did. I want to read her other books! There were parts of the story that frustrated me, mainly the disconnect between Rowan and Axel. I know this was intentional. Libby’s perspective was a conflicting read but ultimately her character is misunderstood. This was a great mystery thriller and I wish more books were written like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Fatphobia, Gore, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexism, Sexual content, and Abandonment