Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

15 reviews

strangeeigenfunction's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

4.5

I see a lot of comparisons to the Dresden Files, which I cannot provide, being unfamiliar with them. To me this feels something like Jasper Fforde was told to write a Discworld Watch novel but set it in London and include magic and copious historical details. I like it! (especially as someone who has feelings about a totally different river in an entirely different part of the world)

I can, however, definitely see how people could be annoyed by Grant's tendency to be sexually attracted to women at relatively inappropriate times (there's definitely sexism, though I'd stop short of saying the book expresses a notable level of hatred towards women, aside perhaps from the historical Punch & Judy story) and I expect people with only slightly less tolerance for historical details or technobabble might get bored here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Sexism, Gun violence, Sexual content, Police brutality, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual violence, Drug use, Racial slurs, Addiction, and Excrement

smmrmmrmmr's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I really enjoyed listening to this. The magic system was really interesting and the plot was gripping.

HOWEVER:

The main character objectifies every single woman he comes across, and they all seem fine with this? every single woman in this book seems determined, at some point, to make him sexually attracted to him and he constantly thinks about boobs or butts and it takes up a fair part of his inner monologue. I choose to believe that this is not how all men think.

Too many descriptions of cars. The main character seems to belive that you can tell everything about a person by what car they drive, and know what car they drive by how they behave. I do not care about cars and I think he talked more about them than the murders he was supposed to be investigating

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Deadnaming, Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

decembermagpie's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Drug use, Kidnapping, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Drug abuse, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Addiction

typedtruths's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Racism, Blood, and Gore

➸ Trigger warnings for racism & racist language, sexism, ableism, blood & gore depiction, graphic dead bodies, body horror, hospitalisation, decapitation (on-page), murder (theme), gun violence, infanticide by defenestration (on-page), and loss of autonomy (possession).

whirl's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Vomit, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Gun violence