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How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

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bellsdixon's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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izzyheal's review against another edition

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dark tense 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

2.25

This was a chore to get through - the story had promise and I was gripped at points but the charm eventually wore off.

- The main character was insufferable (I know she wasn’t meant to be likeable), her rants became tedious and annoying instead of cool and insightful, and when a character was introduced in the last few chapters who was equally rambling I could not care.
- The ‘class’ commentary was surface level
- The final act ‘twist’ was frustrating and immersion-breaking
- The formatting and chronology was all over the place I felt lost and was often checking to see how many pages I had left.
- I did quite like the murder chapters, they felt like the most thought out sections but I hated the jumping around when

Caro

was introduced - also I feel like I missed something cos

how did Bryony die???

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brooklynjane's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious tense 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

3.75

Grace is a totally shitty, painful and despicable human, but I was somehow rooting her her success in her plans. I found her funny, and I found her inner mind intriguing: the way that she was able to manipulate the world to fit her views, and how she was able to look at other people's wrongs and often not her own.

I didn't love the ending, I appreciated what it was trying to do but it just left me furious on Grace's behalf.

I would've liked it if her brother had given her some money at least, but I guess it really shows that the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.

I would've rated it higher with a different ending, but it was still enjoyable.

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sadiaa's review against another edition

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3.0

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izmarsh's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

It didn't feel her reason for killing was reason enough, all through the book I was waiting for some "aha!" moment or a twist that would depeen the readers understanding of why she was killing her family but there wasn't so I felt like I couldn't get on board with the main character. The ending was quite predictable and an easy way out to add an extra character.

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baileyanabella's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No

2.0

the entire time I couldn't help but feel like this author is a huge NLOG and it seeps deeply into her writing and all of her characters. could put the annoying character monologues aside if the plot was better executed.. interesting concept, but not well realized. author was too focused on disparaging any part of pop culture she possibly can to seem edgy and funny.

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