Reviews tagging 'Injury/injury detail'

You'll Be the Death of Me, by Karen M. McManus

13 reviews

deadgirlwalking23's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, Injury/injury detail, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Infidelity, and Violence

readerorwateva's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, and Infidelity

Minor: Vomit

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

Although I have generally loved this author's works (she has become one of my faves and must read), this one was a little bit of a letdown. It's on par with my meh feelings on "one of us is next". I wasn't super excited or pulled to finish it like many of her others but I still enjoyed it enough so it didn't feel like a waste of my time. 
I both liked and hated the ending because

Spoiler

Lara is out and about and got engaged to Mateo's dad?! The hell? But I liked Ivy deciding to go "scorched earth" because that woman should be in jail not only for her involvement with the drugs but also because she's a predator

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The characters were nice but I feel they were the least developed/interesting out of all her books that I've read (which is all of them except for her 2022 release). Or maybe I feel like they were too similar to her other characters maybe? Not sure, but I wasn't as invested in them as some of her previous characters. 
The book has it's slow parts but really speeds up towards the end when stuff starts coming together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood, Kidnapping, Gun violence, and Injury/injury detail

calamitywindpetal's review

emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Death, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Violence, Drug use, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Racism and Homophobia

subjecta5's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Drug use

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Injury/injury detail and Violence

hanna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective 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

3.0

An interesting enough story but one that sadly just didn't grip me enough. After not liking "The Cousins" too, I'm thinking this will be it for me and McManus.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, Injury/injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Classism, and Car accident

Minor: Alcohol

max_nico's review

tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/injury detail, Violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Gun violence

rachelizx's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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: Blood

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

bookedandbusy's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

I loved this book so much! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, and Vomit

Also somewhat graphic depictions of drowning

kimnie's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/injury detail, and Death