Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

6 reviews

cdkm9's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

A page-turner that had me hooked from the beginning and kept surprising me until the very end! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Pedophilia, Dementia, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, and Stalking

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

sandymaple's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Really enjoyed this until I got to the end. Forgot to write the ending?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Dementia, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide

Minor: Cancer and Miscarriage

writer_egreene's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Gun violence, Infertility, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Dementia, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Blood, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, and Abortion

jschenk's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.5

Very good. Lots of twists and turns. The end is sad and hard to read but necessary in order to bring closure to everything. All in all, very good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Dementia and Grief

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Drug use, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Kidnapping

hmstumfoll's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Gun violence, Infertility, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage

drraytay's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

This book was well written and if I was unfamiliar with the JonBenet Ramsey case I would think it was a unique story. But unfortunately we are all familiar with the JonBenet Ramsey case and the main focus of this book is a murder almost exactly like JonBenet’s. I know Ashley has been accused of plagiarism in the past so I wanted to go in with an open mind but it was clear from the first chapter that there were glaring similarities: charismatic and successful girl goes missing in the middle of the night, same age, same time period, nearly the same cause of death, crime scene compromised from the start, body found within hours, mention of a ransom, national obsession, weird media appearances, mom is painted as jealous and a bad mother, stand-off ish brother, pretty mom and well off dad, mom dies before crime is solved. That is A LOT similar of details, so much so that I was distracted by the ever unfolding similarities for the first 60% of the book. There were a few twists that were surprising but most of them I saw coming from a mile away.

One glaring error that kept bothering me was the timeline of when Billy and Krissy got together vs when the twins were born. Billy and Krissy met the summer of ‘88 but when January died I’m ‘94 she was 6 years old. Later in the book her birthdate was mentioned as April ‘88 which means Billy and Krissy would’ve had to get together in the summer of ‘87. Hopefully this is just an editing error and it will be fixed before the book is released but it was really distracting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Dementia, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Blood

Minor: Cancer, Sexual assault, Car accident, and Pregnancy