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The Last Laugh by Mindy McGinnis

10 reviews

calamitywindpetal's review

dark 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

Graphic: Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Drug abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Vomit, Sexism, Dementia, Confinement, Gun violence, Abandonment, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Child abuse

Minor: Animal death

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

Okay, I checked this out from the library as soon as I finished the first one, and I will say this was a pretty great sequel. A lot of my questions from the first book were answered and had me going "wtf WTF" throughout. 
There were some gross/gruesome parts so check some content/trigger warnings. 
I overall liked the ending as well even though it made me a little sad. What I was hoping for didn't happen, but it's okay.

closure is better than nothing, but I would've liked to see tress and felicity rebuild their friendship knowing/understanding that what they both did was due to trauma. I'm glad Rue was able to be saved and go with Tress to build a new/different life as well

 I need to read more from this author!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Death, Grief, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Abandonment, Addiction, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Violence, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Dementia

emeraldelephant's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This was intense!  Not only was the plot even crazier as a continuation of The Initial Insult but it delivered on many fronts.  It's also pretttttyyy gory and gross.  I have a decently strong stomach but some descriptions were A LOT to listen to/read.  I didn't have strong feelings about Ribbit in TII but man he pissed me off in this one.  He always seemed weak and passive but he flipped that and became kind of evil.  To be fair, he was bullied pretty badly for a while and he wants revenge on the popular kids.  But the manner of his revenge was harsh.  Tress, bless her, she tried so hard in this book.  And yes, she made up for a lot.  She's a very interesting character to read from and follow and I'm really glad I finished this duology.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Mental illness, Medical content, Death of parent, Blood, and Animal death

poppyseedromance's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Blood, Dementia, Excrement, and Classism

danicampbell0506's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug use and Murder

njlbo1's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Bullying

Moderate: Alcohol

eeeeva's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, and Drug use

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, Murder, Death, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Body horror, Toxic friendship, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Dementia, Alcoholism, Vomit, and Sexism

Minor: Infidelity, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

librarianryan's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Book two picks up right where book one left off.  Some differences: no internal thoughts from the panther, but we get lots more from Rue the orangutan.  Also we don’t hear from Felicity, this time the chapters alternate between Tress and Ribbit (Kermit Usher).   

 

There are many points in this book that will have readers uttering “oh shit”, and hitting the rewind or rereading the page to and think “did I just really hear that”.  There were so many surprises in this book.  Some expected, and some so crazy and unexpected that the reader sits on the edge of their chair not able to turn their self away. 

 

The reader gets a lot more family dynamic with Felicity, Tress, and Kermit.  After all this is a small town and everyone is related somehow.  Plus we get to see new things that happened at the party that were not previously known. 

 

Fair warning: this book has much more gore or graphic descriptions than the last one.  There are explosions, fires, burning skin, and sooooooo much other eye widening action.  I LOVED every minute of it.  I liked how it wasn’t completely predictable, had some bat shit crazy things that are still quite believable, and yet maintained itself as a story about family; the good, the bad, the birth, and the found.  

 

To be honest, was this book as good as the first.  No.  However, it was a very satisfying read, and a great ending to the story.  There is a little heart break, a little just deserts, but it works out as it should in the end.  I thoroughly enjoyed the conclusion to this story, and will be recommending the duology for years to come. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

thenextgenlibrarian's review

dark mysterious 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

5.0

The Last Laugh is the sequel and much-anticipated follow up to The Initial Insult, both of which are a part of The Cask of Amontillado retelling by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcohol, Violence, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Murder