Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

45 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

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

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

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

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

Would’ve given this a five, except that I was frustrated by the ending. Storytelling was well done. All throughout the book, I had more information than any of the characters at any point in the story, but still, there were multiple red herrings to get through. And even though I had parts figured out in advance, including what really happened that night, which was only revealed at the very end, I was frustrated because there were multiple time lines, and the present time line was too abrupt for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

quercine's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

2.5

It’s a good book, a good mystery even.  However, it is clearly the author’s fantasy about solving the JonBenet Ramsey case, which I personally found ethically questionable. The cold case in the book is so obviously inspired by the real life JBR case and the ending [no spoilers] came off as her personal theory on a real life unsolved case. Despite decent writing and a twist ending, by the end I was more focused on how this suddenly felt more like an true crime podcast episode in an alternate universe, which honestly I should have seen coming given the author’s day job. I would have given this at least 4 stars for plot and writing if the plot wasn’t so clearly the author exploiting a real life murder victim’s story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Dementia, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence and Stalking

phantomgecko's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

Ashley Flowers has written what she knows: small town Indiana and (fictional) true crime.

It kinda feels JonBenet Ramsey murder fanfiction. But, since that's an unsolved murder with several theories, I guess it's reasonable to fictionalize it.

The double narrative, the twists, the turns, the epilogue... It all came together well. I enjoyed reading it. I didn't loooove it probably because I felt detached from the characters, and that's okay.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Blood, Dementia, and Murder

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

teebe's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Dementia, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy

sammimac's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder