Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

16 reviews

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

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

emadisonc's review against another edition

dark 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

What small tragedies their lives had turned out to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, and Miscarriage

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

jillianmegan's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

I loved the book and definitely points where I could not put it down. It is a POV book with the characters set in different years but there is crossover on characters between the 2 POVs. If you don’t listen to her podcast Crime Junkies the ending is a bit of a cliff hanger but they say a line similar in a lot of their episodes so it made sense to me and I was ok with it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Hate crime, and Murder

chelle_benedetti's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual assault

spookycece13's review against another edition

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

Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Pedophilia

Minor: Alcoholism, Infertility, and Miscarriage

jennifersmind's review against another edition

mysterious 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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

stephanieluxton's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Blood, and Stalking

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

I enjoyed the book and was surprised by the ending. Though I would have liked a more definitive ending, I liked being surprised by who the murderer was. I do wonder though

if Officer Wallace was a red herring or why she was in the book but not mentioned with the serial child murderer. Was it because of the time gap?

Overall it was a twisty thriller that I enjoyed, with just that one plot hole. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Violence, Dementia, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Pedophilia, Suicide, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence