Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells

4 reviews

yomireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.5

I loved this read, but also I hated it. Which is to say it was a well written and compelling addition to the series, with a couple exciting new side characters who were well developed... but also I feel a little emotionally distraught having finished it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Death of parent, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, Blood, Child abuse, and Violence

Minor: Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Vomit

sexualedward's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Death, Gore, Suicide, Self harm, Stalking, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Grief, Violence, Murder, and Pedophilia

Minor: Car accident, Abandonment, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Medical content, Rape, and Sexual harassment

occhilism's review

challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

At first it was a bit boring to read because I really wanted to get into the action but the ending turned out better than expected. John's relationship with Marci was great because he seemed to get some development. Although I predicted that Nobody have taken control of Marci somehow I was really sad when she died and angry when it was confirmed that Nobody was the cause. I was kinda disappointed to see Brooke back in the picture but I loved how everything circles back around and it made for a great ending. John's mother dying was heartwrenching especially because of how sudden it was and how she could actually feel the pain of the fire. And the plot twist was a bit shocking though I should have known that that overeagerness Agent Ostler showed wasn't for nothing.

I live how even though we see John get some development in his character and emotion the book never actually put emotional descriptions when John wants to describe his feeling. I get that it's mainly because she doesn't know how he feel about a lot of things but at the end as he watched his mother die he didn't say he "stared in horror" or something which I really loved and appreciated.  My school only has the 1st 3 books so I'm really eager to by the next 3.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Suicide

monniebiloney's review

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

This book changes the status quo, by being like 70% relationship and only 30% plot, and it was great!

Spoiler

Marcy(?)

was a great character and it was nice for John to actually make a real friend.
The ending of this book might make you cry

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Stalking

Spoiler

crys