Reviews tagging 'Death'

Don't Believe It by Charlie Donlea

10 reviews

melshoo's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Blood, and Murder

ecurtin222's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Dude, wtf

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Blood, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

patientlysarah's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

seagullsaga's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Slow to warm up and quite an abrupt ending. Maybe It’s just been a while since I’ve read this genre, but this book didn’t click with me until about two thirds of the way through. The whole thing is wrapped up by a quick series of twists that feels a little sudden but not out of place. When it lands though, it’s great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

rhgrimes's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Car accident, and Murder

rochelleisreading's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Car accident

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Toxic friendship

upgirlcd's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Plot was interesting & really amped up the last /4 of the book. Characters had no depth whatsoever...really good twist in the end. Best part of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Death, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

pizzajules's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

the premise of this book was interesting and it was pretty good for the majority of the book, but the ending falls completely flat and makes the entire book completely unenjoyable overall. there are far too many loose ends and tidbits of information that ended up not meaning anything in the long-run, and the end is a cheap way at a 'gotcha!' ending as the ONLY reason it catches readers off guard is because there is no way for us to have predicted it. its not satisfying. this isnt a book that i think back on and see where i could have connected dots and didnt for one reason or another; dots arent able to be connected in a way where the reader feels like theyre figuring things out because everything is so convoluted. ugh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Lesbophobia

mrsherrera's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Antisemitism