Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

All of Us Villains by C.L. Herman, Amanda Foody

24 reviews

evanreads's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child abuse, Gore, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Body horror, Cursing, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Vomit, Alcohol, and Eating disorder

emily_bg's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Child abuse

kitkat6678's review

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Alcohol, and Child abuse

Minor: Toxic friendship and Alcoholism

laguerrelewis's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

This book is complicated, for me. It has aspects I really enjoy, specially one of the protagonists and her storyline. However, the quality is incredibly uneven, swinging from legitimately complex and interesting narrative to the most trope-filled generalized characterization and plot beats I’ve encountered (A character literally points out that there’s “only one bed” in a particularly groan-worthy romantic subplot). Characters that are interesting get strong-armed into changing their behavior and motivations whenever the plot demands, showing the hand of the author plainly. This book is fine for teen readers and fans of #booktok, but it left me wanting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Gore, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Violence

jaimee_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

This is exactly what I wanted in a YA death game.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Murder

mhirsch1213's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.25

This is definitely a YA. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. But the different girl falling for the broody boy is just not my thing like it use to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, and Death

onemamareads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Child death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

oliverreeds's review

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

like good but the end just wasnt compelling. i probabky wont read the rest of the series. i think i wanted it to be a stand alone

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, and Violence

andromeda_1998's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

All of us villains was a really surprising book, it’s a mix between The hunger games and the faith anime series. And I’m here for it. 

Characters 
I love that the writers choose to use multiple pov’s. You will find yourself rooting for multiple characters eventhough you know just one of them can survive. 

All characters have reasons that they have to win and some of them deserve to win. There is a champion for every reader, which also means that there will be characters you like less. 

Story 
The story is about a group of teenagers that have to fight a magical contest to win a great power for their families. This contest happens every 20 years and used to be fought in secrecy. Now the secret is out in the open. May the best champion win. 

Writing 
The writing is done very well. The chapters link together flawlessly. The differences in writingstyles are really hard to spot. 

Worldbuilding 
The magic system in this world is interesting and different to what I’m used to. I liked it but it isn’t for everyone. I feel like the world is very detailed but that we didn’t get enough to really understand it. 

Recommendations 
I would recommend this one-off almost everyone. It’s a good steppingstone into fantasy, especially for science fiction lovers.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

quinn24's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts