Reviews tagging 'Death'

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

7 reviews

rcarri264's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Gore, Pedophilia, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

litliz's review

adventurous challenging 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Trafficking, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Death, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Stalking, Confinement, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cursing, Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Pedophilia

Minor: Medical content, Misogyny, Abandonment, Ableism, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

fatherofmysteries's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Captures the feel of Holmes, true to the characters, but with the darker, hidden side at the forefront. Not afraid to rip off the bandaid.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Addiction, Drug use, Gun violence, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Death, Murder, Confinement, Sexual violence, and Rape

elzmri's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Horowitz portrays Holmes and Watson brilliantly, and I really like his writing style. However the content of the crimes that they were investigating, which were revealed towards the end, was really difficult to read and I wish I had seen the content trigger warnings beforehand. As a review on the front cover notes, Horowitz certainly does explore the “capital’s dark underbelly [more] than Conan Doyle ever did”, but I found this to be a bit too triggering and shocking for me and I was close to having to put the book down, but I tried and managed to read it to the end. Nevertheless, I hope for Horowitz to write more Holmes pastiches in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Sexual harassment, and Rape

ghouligan's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Racial slurs, Addiction, Classism, Death, Drug use, and Pedophilia

littlemozart's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

A fast-paced page turner - I really enjoyed this coda to the Sherlock Holmes series. Holmes and Watson were very well portrayed, and all of the threads of the mysteries were drawn together well at the end of the book.

It is worth noting, however, that all in all this was a serious, dark read, with not much redeeming lightness.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Murder, and Pedophilia

Minor: Addiction

norwegianforestreader's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Murder, Gun violence, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Confinement, and Child death