Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

20 reviews

spookycece13's review

dark emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

I'm so so notorious for giving everything 5 stars and it may just be because I love Crime Junkie but this book is now in my top 5. I think it was very well written and the twists all shocked me (even if I did figure out a couple). And THAT ENDING.  Our story follows a duel timeline with Margot in 2019, trying to solve not only the murder of her childhood friend but also the murder of another child; and on the other side we have Krissy in the 90's who discovers her child, January, dead in her own home. This book is so twisty and so great. If you like Crime Junkie (or not, I don't know your life), murder mysteries and shocking twists and turns out of your thrillers, give this book a try. This was Ashley Flowers very first novel and she absolutely killed it in the best way. (Pun intented). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Suicide, Dementia, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Grief, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Addiction

Minor: Infertility, Alcoholism, and Miscarriage

aharper's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Miscarriage, and Sexual assault

y3llow_umbr3lla's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Started a little confusing due to the switching between characters and timelines each chapter, and also ended pretty abruptly. Still a great murder mystery with lots of twists and turns.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Child death, Violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Death, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Infertility and Miscarriage

jkarki's review

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I love Crime Junkie and this book was on my radar even before I found the podcast. But making the connection bumped it to the top of my TBR. 
It was an easy read. It was simple but had twists I wasn't expecting. I thought I knew who did it from the beginning, but was proven wrong multiple times. 
Margot seems quite lost in life and there were some plot holes I didn't understand. Like what exactly happened with her parents? She didn't have friends?? I found Uncle Luke to be very loveable. 
Also, not important, but I totally picture Detective Townsend looking like Gibbs from NCIS lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm

Moderate: Violence, Suicide, Child abuse, Murder, Stalking, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

Minor: Miscarriage

annaofjesup's review

mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Grief, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Infertility

lwelch94's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

jellycatfrog's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

I could not have guessed the ending, what a twist! But it did make sense and it was a great whodunnit. Devastating though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Body horror, Death, and Murder

becca_w_'s review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Gore, Infertility, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Grief, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Violence, Stalking, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual violence, Addiction, and Sexual assault

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Classism, Abortion, Drug use, and Rape

kazofbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Margot returns home to the small town where her best friend’s murder still haunts everyone, just as another little girl goes missing. 

While this story is very similar to a true crime case, it is engaging and heart racing. In some ways it is very biased if you think of it as being based on the JonBenet Ramsey case but only if you think of it that way. I loved this book but the ending felt rushed and I didn’t really care about the main character until the last 20% of the book. The dual timelines were interesting and show the parallels of the story well. 

For me the ending was too ambiguous and didn’t make it clear if it was the end or if more could come of it later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Murder, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Alcohol, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Infertility

shesheshelby's review

dark mysterious 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

2.5

It reads like a young adult book because some really basic things are over explained. You can really hear the authors voice - which some people think is a good thing, but I find Ashley Flowers and Crime Junkie obnoxious. I checked out the book before realizing it was her otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten it!

Anyways, so many problems could be fixed if people just talked to each other. Most of the major plot points are miscommunications which I find boring and not creative?

The main character is annoying. I wasn’t rooting for her. I really liked Luke and Pete and Jodie! Everyone else seemed flimsy or shallow.

I did enjoy the twists - some things were very Jerry Springer. Always a fan of Springer. The book was a 2 until Springer things showed up!

It is very unrealistic for a serial killer to stalk some victims and kill some victims. Stalking could escalate to killing, but it wouldn’t be an every other pattern like the book suggested. It was a convenient way to make the plot work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, Violence, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Infertility

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy