Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

33 reviews

barbz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

Graphic: Murder and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide

rieviolet's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is certainly quite peculiar in terms of narrative form and also of point of view (the chapters from the perspective of a desk, I mean what was that?!). 
I think that when it worked for me, it worked really really well and I was left really impressed by the writing style and the profound and poignant exploration of a certain topic. However, when it didn't work, it really really didn't work for me and I just felt very confused and like the narrative style had been overdone a bit too much. 
Also, some sections where the character of Death was talking sounded to me too much like an essay, maybe too much "telling, and not showing", not very subtly handled. 

At times it felt a bit overly graphic (the list of content warnings is so long that, honestly, it'd be easier to say what is not included) and I'm not sure if it was really necessary for the story. So many examples of very brutal crimes are included and the section with example after example of different types of deaths is quite taxing to get through.

I think it was a bit of a mixed bag for me but I'm still glad to have tried something a bit out of of my literary comfort zone. 

You grow and
become who you are 
you grow into your shape
I could have been anything
but this was the shape the world 
carved into me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Violence, Sexual violence, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Domestic abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Blood, Suicide, Mental illness, Grief, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Slavery, Physical abuse, Cursing, Cannibalism, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, and Racism

Minor: Vomit, Excrement, War, Torture, Fatphobia, Trafficking, Transphobia, and Addiction

katiewhocanread's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cursing, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Classism, Child death, Mental illness, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Minor: Cannibalism

karenmariscalo's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.75

Weird and disjointed not engaging.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, and Death

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Sexism

e_vie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, and Rape

abbie52923's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

lbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

rugbygirlreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Mass/school shootings

mscarlettc's review against another edition

I feel this book was not as advertised. I was expecting a comical and reflective interaction between the fictional character of Mrs death and the writer Wolf and their developmentoof some kind of friendship or relationship. Instead I got a lot of words and not much story. It was all exceptionally confusing and overly complicated. Although in parts were well written and offered interesting explorations of the relationship between modernity and death it ultimately fell far short of its synopsis and the reviews that accompany the book. Overall very disappointing. Additionally not one for fiction lovers who don't particularly engage with poetry. It's largely written in prose. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Racism and Domestic abuse

janeharder's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism