Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

52 reviews

jasmine_23's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

Listening to it, the story felt repetitive and very much just society bashing. The only reason I've given 3 stars is that the ending was interesting, but overall, I wouldn't recommend it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Eating disorder, Incest, Stalking, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

perfectionism's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

The ending left me angry. I felt like there was some great injustice and i don’t know whether that means the ending was good or bad in a literature sense but i think it had a certain irony to it as well.

Revenge driven girl works her entire life to make father pay for abandoning her mother by killing off whole family  only for the final blow being committed by an unknown half brother who blackmails her into letting him keep the inheritance all while claiming they’ve both won.

What a certainly sad and realistic ending to a bizarre story.

Grace said things  sometimes that made me make a face and i think that’s precisely why i liked her character. Her thoughts about men, women, her self awareness about her certain biases, obsessions but then the  lack of awareness about other parts of herself felt so realistic in a real person way. I really did feel like i was hearing the recount of a story from a real woman. She was  unlikeable at times. To be honest, nearly all the characters were. But with her and

her brother

i could always see a greater reasoning behind their actions that made some sort of sense.

I feel a sort of frustration or unfinished feeling towards this book but i don’t actually dislike this book. It was entertaining on a surface level and touched on ideas about women’s place in society that were surprisingly interesting amid the tiny bits of self aware internalised misogyny. It all just feels a little ironic, a little funny, a little dark. Fun book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Eating disorder, Incest, and Sexual harassment

geerbeer's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Leuk om zo te lezen, maar niet heel vernieuwend voor iemand die ontzettend veel crime/horror/thriller films & series gezien heeft 🤷🏻‍♀️😊

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

that_awkwardbook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective

4.5

This is a book about a young woman killing her family, so you absolutely get what the title states.

There  are  heavy and dark topics spoken about and in depth detailed murder. But it's done In a lovely way, there is a lightness to the book that makes it a very enjoyable read and makes you root for the murderer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

mummamyers's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

stindex's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

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

1.0

The author makes me sad. They’ve apparently tried to push all the things they hate into this book and it just makes this feel like a boomer whining about basically everything. For a ”feminist” main character the mc sure spent a lot of time hating on women in a very pick me -girlish style. Body shaming was also very present whenever describing anyone else but the mc or their love interest. The premise was great but the book is an absolute train wreck from the start.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Grief, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

saskiahill's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

esv_'s review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Eating disorder, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Stalking, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

kimberleyann's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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? Yes

3.5

I thought the first 3/4 of the book was written well,  however

the ending ruined it for me, I didn’t like that it switched to the brothers perspective and then we didn’t hear anything else from the FMC

I did find the book gripping.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

awxhhlilla's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail