Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

2 reviews

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I enjoyed this book! I feel like the killer was revealed too early in the book though, and it took some of the suspense away. It didn’t slow down though, which was nice! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

Spoiler

There’s a pretty brutal hazing seen in chapter 19. It’s bad. The girls are forced to drink alcohol, they’re called names, they have food thrown at them and smeared in their faces, Makani is forced to eat dog food and she’s sick because of it. The girls are verbally abused and tabasco is poured in their eyes.

Spoiler

Spoiler

drowning is mentioned twice. Once in chapter twenty and then again in chapter 22. It chapter twenty Makani talks about her ex best friend nearly drowning after running into the ocean when she was drunk. In ch 22 Ollie tells Makani how he planned to drown himself in a suicide attempt.

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sarah984's review

funny tense fast-paced

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

2.0

This book felt really amateurishly written, lots of telling us about people without showing anything (I already forget almost every character because you're just fed a paragraph of info about them and then they all act the same way) and tortured metaphors. The killer’s motivation is genuinely ridiculous, as is Makani’s "dark secret" and her romance with Ollie.

A few of the scares involving things being moved around in the houses were creepy, but overall this felt like it was trying to be a slasher and a romance and failing at both.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Stalking, and Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Vomit, Torture, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Racism, and Transphobia

There is a detailed scene involving hazing.