Reviews tagging 'Murder'

La casa de las grietas by Krystal Sutherland

241 reviews

twirl's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-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

1.0

The pacing felt really slow, with a lack of balance between dialogue (either none for pages and pages or monologues) and very detailed descriptions. The characters that felt cliche and hard to root for. I felt like both the narrator withholding  information and the details so heavily eluding to information made it so that nothing felt surprising.

I would instead like to recommend Wilder Girls, which had more intrigue, cooler body horror, and more elements of queerness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Murder, Alcohol, Child death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Stalking

automatic_rae's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I never knew where the plot was going next. Confusing, intriguing, different to anything else I’ve read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Self harm, Stalking, Vomit, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Blood, Drug use, Gore, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

danteeeh's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Stalking

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Body horror, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Confinement, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic friendship

alexasolis98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book was eerie and dark. The imagery of rotting and dead things was quite descriptive. The plot dragged a bit at times. Something still felt missing by the end of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, Drug abuse, Murder, Sexual assault, Grief, Vomit, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Animal death

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.0

The focus on the decay in nature really worked for me in this book. It really upped the creep factor. I also loved the horror element. There was just this crawling feeling of creeping terror that grew inside me throughout the whole book. That being said, it was nice to have some humor every once in a while and Tyler’s character really brought that. What I didn’t need though, was the high school bullying. Obviously it’s a ya book, so high school drama is to be expected, but it just didn’t hit for me. also it has to be said that some of these characters have REMARKABLE pain tolerance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual assault, Vomit, Kidnapping, Blood, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying and Gun violence

luunacy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying

lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I like weird books and I cannot lie. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Torture, Grief, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Suicide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Bullying, Drug use, Self harm, Stalking, Animal death, and Child death

safiewafie's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Death, Child death, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide

saffic's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense

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

3.5

As someone who has no sense of smell, this book was rough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Death of parent, Vomit, and Child death

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicide, Sexual harassment, and Kidnapping

While there is no incest in this book

the main character has one line where she implies to her sister's boyfriend that she loves her as much as he does, which given all other descriptions of their relationship in this book, reads to me as incestuous. But also, I don't have siblings, so this line might have been meant entirely as sisters.

evspekkie's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder