Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

20 reviews

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

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

dev921's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

lbyars99's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion

vallyn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

The first half of the story I really enjoyed, the second half is where the book basically fell apart for me. Overall while the second half fell short I do hope the author writes more books because I did enjoy her writing. I don’t want to put to many details that could possibly spoil the book but if you like True Crime podcasts and the such I think this book would be right up your alley. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Dementia, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, and Blood

haveyouseencass's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

savreads28's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

jkar7's review against another edition

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: Self harm, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

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

Minor: Miscarriage

jackieyvette's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-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

1.75

Honestly just a sad attempt at rewriting an actual tragedy. We all know this is a total rip off of the JonBenét Ramsey case and I at first gave it the benefit of the doubt but it disappointed me. 
The main character Margot is okay to read about, but her story just came so easy to her you can tell that it got cut down to simple straightforward answers every time. 
The many twists and red herrings never felt interesting enough to draw you in and the only character that felt like a real person was Krissy. Every other person felt like a charicture of an actual crime and that just feels icky to read. 
I was so close to having my first DNF, but I persevered, but at what cost? 

Crying score: No no no. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

frantically's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

This was a great debut! I was really invested in the story and the past & present were well intertwined. The ending was just too abrupt for me and I'm disappointed that there's not going to be a sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Dementia, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Pedophilia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide