Reviews tagging 'Murder'

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

19 reviews

cupecake's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? No

3.25

Narrator - I would have preferred the voice to be younger. I didn't know it was a YA book when I checked it out, and the voice itself, I thought the character was older then 17. Which was a bit confusing in the initial chapters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia

shadowspinner's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Alcoholism and Infidelity

julieyael's review

challenging 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? Yes

4.0

Lovely haunting mystery, anchoring supernatural to our world. A bit gothic, a bit fantastic, a bit creepy. 
I would have loved it more with less teenage characters (harder for me to identify as I am over 40), but it would have worked less, I guess. 
I couldn’t put the book down so that’s a good sign☺️
Not rating higher because of some details that annoyed me, and the romance which I don’t really care for. The characters are interresting, even if a bit simplistic/stereotyped. 
I loved the global rythm of the story and could re-read it with pleasure. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Death of parent, and Murder

kaylinvm94's review against another edition

dark

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, and Murder

sage_alexandra's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Besides this book being really good, the narrator Megan Trout? Absolutely fantastic!!!!! I had CHILLS when the first figment spoke. 

Kate Alice Marshall crafted a beautifully complicated story

The book description mentions "The Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out", but neglects to bring up, what I found to be, a much stronger connection to The Haunting of Bly Manor. Spoilers for both Bly Manor and this book:

The figments being similar to the faceless ghosts of Bly Manor. The queer romance. The main character becoming or uniting with the thing that was feared most. The absurd child sacrifices (or attempts of) for power or personal gain.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Vomit, and Kidnapping

Minor: Cursing, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

a couple more content warnings: - mention of lobotomies - altered perception of reality/dissociation/loss of time and memories - a lot of bones, human and animal - vague mention of severing of limbs - specific body horror: skin coming off the body, soft bones, jumbled up humanoid bodies

swhite4's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Animal death

sai_like_sigh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cursing, Infidelity, Blood, Death of parent, and Classism

Unreliable narrator, reality called into quest, inte se doubt

ilaxaria's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Blood, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, and Death of parent

alexijai98's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

czoltak's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

My least favorite from this author so far. The premise and initial set up were super intriguing, but after that it got super repetitive, confusing, and boring. Also that ending was absolutely not for me. I can tell there are people who will love and really vibe with this, I’m just unfortunately not one of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail