Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

175 reviews

ecjl's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

beccalou's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Rape

galerieanna25's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

saraavowlerr's review against another edition

emotional mysterious slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

ashley_dreaming's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

melanieripple's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Murder

sebsjazzclub's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

What a beautiful book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Rape, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Murder

jaylee_books's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

jordan_noel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Eleanor Oliphant describes how loneliness can completely eat at a person's whole life, and yet still feel like something that must be hidden away.

Eleanor Oliphant is funny, completely un-self-aware, and refreshingly blunt with her social observations. She's continuously shocking and increasingly loveable the more you get to know her.

I felt that this book can help anyone better understand how isolating "dark thoughts" can be, and how necessary simple social interactions are to our survival and, less dramatically, our well-being. Everybody needs a friend, no one is completely self-sufficient and happy, in spite of that being exactly what society seems to want from each of us. I loved the honesty in this book; it's the only way for people to truly heal and live better lives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Bullying, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Grief, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cursing

potassiumk's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

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

3.25

The only reason I finished this book was because I had to read it for school. It was so boring until a little more than half way. Then I finally started to care about Eleanor. Before that she was annoying for no reason. Atleast now she has a reason to be. 

Another thing is that somehow this woman knows nothing about modern society. Even the most tech deprived people I know, have phones and know what pop culture references are. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Sexual assault and Terminal illness