Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Gallant by V.E. Schwab

48 reviews

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Grief

Minor: Blood, Mental illness, Child death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, and Medical content

baearles's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Child death, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Pregnancy

louisegraveyard's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Bullying, Death, Murder, Suicide, Death of parent, Animal death, and Blood

helenbobelen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Murder

tirretiipero's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death and Suicide

alibrarymouse's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

Beautifully written with gorgeous aesthetics, but the characters weren’t much and I have to admit I wasn’t too fond of any of them. We weren’t really given too much to be fond of, and with Olivia there was a lot of potential that doesn’t get fully realized. Everything I wanted, I didn’t get, but maybe my expectations were too high? 

It’s modern gothic, catharsis in its own way, but—at the same time—fantasy offers a twist I think would have made for a better ending. Schwab has realism going for her at least. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Murder, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

streberkatze's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Child death

yrlaevelyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, and Ableism

Minor: Suicide and Murder

archer_w27's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

i'm honestly not sure what i was expecting from this book, as i have never read v.e. schwab's work, but it was really good. the writing was really nice and easy to read. When going into this book i would be careful, spirits and death is the whole plot of the book. if you are someone that gets easily paranoid i would suggest reading this during the day or when you are around people. it's not scary, but as someone who gets easily paranoid, the mentions of ghosts and death himself spooked me a little. i would definitely recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

tays_books's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death of parent, Murder, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death and Child death