Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine

26 reviews

justine15's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Torture, Murder, Stalking, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Violence

Minor: Car accident and Adult/minor relationship

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

3.75

Beginning was a little slow but it def picks up and is entertaining. Legit didn't know who the killer was until the reveal. And what a reveal it was!
Kind of reminded me of My Heart is a Chainsaw in some aspects with all the horror movie references, the main characters being into horror movies, and the main characters talking/thinking about finals girls and how to be like them. 
I will say with everything that happened, the ending was not my fave. Is it shocking? Yes. Is it satisfying? Absolutely not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Blood, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Car accident, and Alcohol

bree_1019's review against another edition

dark tense 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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

haley49's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I’m so mad but also so amazed. This was such a twisty ya book that constantly kept me guessing. I’m so upset yet so happy with how great this story was. A twisted Halloween take on it’s a wonderful life

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Blood, Car accident, Grief, Suicide attempt, Body horror, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexism, Racism, Transphobia, and Pedophilia

pheonixlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

I thought that the plot twists, and terror factor was on point. There were multiple times in this book that I was actually freaked out. The ending completely blindsided me and I still can't get over it. I will say that the first 50 pages were really cringy and that's why I didn't rate this 5 Stars. If you can make it through awkward high school interactions, then I think this will be perfect for you. Once the story picks up, it goes away, and you are met with a great story with plot twists you wont be able to guess

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Murder, Grief, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Police brutality

jessw17's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Gore, Blood, Child death, Death, Body horror, and Car accident

Minor: Abandonment, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Grief, and Infidelity

achay91's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

darquedreamer's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

1.5

I really wanted to love this one. I was promised Happy Death Day and Scream vibes, and what I got was a mash up of name dropping, movie references, and overused clichés, tropes, etc. I feel like the author tried too hard to make the story "a self aware horror/comedy", "woke", and socially acceptable, while keeping up with modern social norms, issues, etc., and lost sight of the story itself. The purposeful misdirections felt copied, forced, and overused, and the ending was too open ended and most definitely not satisfying. Now, don't get me wrong, there were some real "one line" bangers in there, like, "But real people are never just one thing. Life's a lot more complicated than that," but, there weren't enough of them to cover up the flat characters and the problems within the story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, and Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

behindherpages's review against another edition

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? No

1.0

besides this being overall horrible, plotholes automatically ruin a book for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Infidelity, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Alcohol and Body shaming

camxies's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.25

I really wanted to like this book & the premise was interesting but omg it’s so convoluted lol like I think adding too much back and forth, both location wise and suspect wise starts to feel boring.

I think she focused on Wes for too long and then like his death just felt like you didn’t even really care because you already thought he died and Alice barely reacts./

There were definitely too many characters and I had to keep rereading to figure out who was who.

Also weird to throw in how all the girls her dad cheated with were technically above the age of consent. Like your dad is having multiple affairs with your teenage classmates that he coaches, it truly doesn’t matter what the age of consent is, it’s disgusting and abusive.  Also reminded me of pretty little liars where they set up a huge dude as the killer then reveal it’s a skinny girl, like okay sure. I guess she’s tall and in a wolf costume but where tf was she keeping it in between killings because we know she had on her normal clothes and she ditched her car so? Make it make sense. I guess we just have to suspend disbelief and believe a teenage girl can commit like 50 murders and get away with it. Also, lastly, why didn’t they mention Wes as ppl Owen was accused of killing at the very end???/

I just feel unsatisfied, there was no true resolution. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Vomit