Reviews tagging 'Death'

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

397 reviews

cristinareading's review

mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual violence

eve_kadou's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

rosie_valadez's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

jasecordova's review

medium-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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

l_piller's review

dark emotional reflective tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

giannab377's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual harassment

emilymhb's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

Thrilling and addictive, this book had me hooked from the first page. The writing was quick and mysterious, always making me beg for more to be revealed. I found the beginning to be kind of slow and the end to be wrapped up too quickly, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Come for the intense sisterly conflict, stay for the in-depth investigations of an accomplice’s psyche.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity and Injury/Injury detail

boop123's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

4.0

 A very fast-paced yet entertaining thriller story! From an outsider’s perspective, it is understandable to think that Korede’s choice to always protect her sister despite knowing that she’s a serial killer is stupid, but it also puts to question just how far are we willing to protect the ones we love. 

It also brings up discourse on Korede’s dilemma on her sister’s misconduct (even though she’s basically an accomplice) or if she should understand where she’s coming from. Even though it’s broken into very short chapters, the author was able to precisely explain Korede’s predicament.

Also this may be just me, but I felt no ounce of sympathy for Tade lmaooo like aww that sucks he’s in jail but the way he treated Korede was so uncalled for. Like you only knew her sister for a few months TOPS know ur limits!!

Overall, loved a good fast-paced thriller and this was finally the book that broke me out of a 2 week reading slump. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexism, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

rachelpacz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Classism

mgseaton01's review

fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

It started off strong but the plot didn’t really progress anywhere. This can be indicative of real life, but I wanted more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder