Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

96 reviews

eliya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Wowie. What a rollercoaster. The book was hard to get into at first, was a little groaning at the farm wife // small town stereotypes but by half way through I think it set a believable scene. I am a little skeptical about some of the events / facts that felt purely coincidental, not entirely believable. I almost DNFd because of how “perfectly” things were falling into place and how the dementia scenes with her uncle seemed to be the same thing over and over again. 
I definitely suspended my disbelief in order to have fun with the book and I did wind up enjoying it. 

Pleasantly surprised about the gayness!! :D Shame that one of them always fucking dies tho lmao. Really was on the edge of my seat with all of the plot twists hahaha it gave me a glimpse into what it might be like to be a journalist or a detective like constantly changing your focus/suspect. No good people to be found lmao. Epilogue was a roller coaster. I fully had sympathy for Billy and then very much didn’t. It was really fascinating and believable the conclusions his mind came to. Best part of the book I think.

Ultimately, chilling, sad, and I’m glad I read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Dementia, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, and Physical abuse

Minor: Gun violence, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, and Stalking

caitbop5's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Pedophilia, Self harm, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Confinement, Miscarriage, Blood, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

mrsdfraggd's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Child death

Minor: Domestic abuse

Graphic description of child murder at the very end & ends on a cliffhanger

katiengelhart's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

This one took me a minute to get into, but once I hit the 50% mark, I couldn’t put it down. The twists! The ending! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Stalking

Moderate: Child abuse

mynameisrebecca's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Blood

joisaddler's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Dementia

hermoine7's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

It kept me entertained throughout most of the book, because I wanted to find out what happened in the past and what would happen now. However, I didn’t like the ending. It didn’t make it clear what happened with a certain character. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Dementia, and Kidnapping

hilaryj10's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

3.25

Lots of different things going on in the book, a bit all over the place. Overall good, lots of twists. The ending was upsetting, but also left too much up the reader for my liking, I want to know how things end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Child death

jenniee_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

I didn’t know when I picked this up that it would loosely resemble the JonBenet Ramsey case but, as a true crime fan, I started picking up on the similarities pretty early on. 

I started with the physical copy but actually ended up listening to most of it on audio. 

There were a few things that I questioned but overall it kept my attention. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Dementia, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicide

heavenlyskyes's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, and Kidnapping