Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Family of Liars by E. Lockhart

29 reviews

kotletka_polina's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

It was a good read. Nothing spectacular, nothing outstanding but a decent book when you don’t want to be overwhelmed. The story flows quickly, it’s catchy and entertaining but without anxiety or feeling like you can’t put the book down.
The only issue is the writing style. It’s exactly the same as in “we were liars”  but it has a different narrator. I believe that when you write from the first person perspective the writing style is no longer yours as the author but theirs as the character therefore having the same styles/techniques is just lazy, boring and cheap thing to do that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Addiction, Drug use, Child death, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Homophobia, and Blood

linnea1801's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Drug use, Sexual assault, Murder, and Child death

Minor: Vomit and Suicidal thoughts

jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Antisemitism, Child death, Colonisation, Blood, Classism, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Body horror, Cultural appropriation, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

ilweran's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault

kccool12255's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Though I was a bit apprehensive about Carrie being the star of our story, I believe that this prequel absolutely lives up to the original novel. Cadence has a very unique voice, easy to follow along with, and Carrie’s has much of that same tone. I enjoyed the boys in the story

(except for Pfeff, of course)

. I love the plot, and didn’t expect any of the plot twists that came. I DO think that Bess could’ve been included more,

and the whole Pfeff-Penny-r*pe storyline made me uncomfortable . And sorry, but I don’t think that Penny’s bi (if she stuffed it down, fine, but I just don’t think it fits up with her character, sorry)

. Ending could’ve been better. Overall though, an amazing experience. 

I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the first book, and murder mysteries.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Child death, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Biphobia, and Infidelity

Minor: Cursing, Blood, and Vomit

katelynndzindzio's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Drug use, Gaslighting, Death, Alcohol, Addiction, Blood, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

zachxxy's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

I literally finished this in one day it was phenomenal! i loved this one so much better than we were liars which i gave 3 stars i think?? ( read we were liars first idk why this is called the prequel)I dont know why maybe because that was the first time i read it and i wasnt sure of the nondescript plot. but now its so good because im familiar with the world and i dont know how e. lockhart does it! she puts so many random everyday things inside the story but it all builds up for something like character development, personality revealing, just all so cunningly planned, absolutely lovely!!!! though after finishing it i felt a little queasy but that may be because im a younger reader. im 13. anyway, loved this book!!! it is darker than the first one though so watch out! the plot didnt really connect to the title in the first book because only the main girl in the first book cadence had secrets and lied. so that kinda threw me off but this book, everyone had secrets and told insane lies it was do exciting. 
I just didnt like the dad much but that was the whole point.. HES SO SCARY

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Child death

Minor: Rape and Homophobia

book_addict's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Physical abuse, Addiction, Death, Drug use, Murder, Infidelity, Medical content, and Child death

rebecca_spain's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Death, Murder, and Blood

judyy079's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Hate crime, and Grief

Moderate: Hate crime, Child death, and Murder

Minor: Blood