Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

5 reviews

cecez_libraryy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

readingtotravel's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I wasn't prepared for this book or this ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder

andieobrien99's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

*before you read this book, keep in mind these trigger warnings:

- miscarriage 
- childhood illness 
- Multiple child death
- murder 
- manslaughter 
- cheating
- trauma 
- suicide mentions 


Woah! What a book! Those twists at the end 🤯

Incredible writing
Incredible story 

It was heartbreaking. Poor Yasmin. I cannot fathom the thought of losing 2 children in horrific ways. 


I highly highly recommend reading this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Abandonment

jen1804's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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

4.5

The final 50 pages of this book gave me twist after twist after twist!
Overall I enjoyed this read, not an easy read by any means, quite harrowing at times given it’s nature - exploring the death of a child, and the grief and the familial fall out that comes with it. But it’s really well written and as I said the ending was unpredictable in a multitude of ways which I really liked!
Satisfactory ending? Yes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Miscarriage, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Abandonment

mikki_9's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

This book made me feel so paranoid tbh It felt like it took a while (after the initial incident) for it to get interesting again. But the ending twists...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail