Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Leopardo nero, lupo rosso by Marlon James

82 reviews

vstarks_film's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Death, Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, and Violence

annabelreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture

samanthand's review against another edition

Disgusting, dense, and pretentious. Was a struggle to even get to 150 pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

I just wasn't finding myself bothered about reading this. I tried to give it a good chance as I've heard if you get so far in its worth it, but I just don't think this is for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Gore, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Other CW: FGM, beastiality

rubyellen95's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Trigger warnings for most things that could be triggering so proceed with care. A dark tale of a man who was hired to find a missing boy ten years ago and tells his story to an inquisitor after that same boy has died.

Magic, myth, mystery and graphic psychological horror abound wrapped in a queer romantic adventure about love, family, found family, masculinity, and pride.

There's also misogyny but it's explored as a character flaw of the character that most displays it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Dysphoria, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

Beastiality takes place but there wasn't a content warning for that. I've put all content warnings as graphic as you're very invovled with the characters that experience them and the writing is very blunt so it can be shocking but for most content warnings and readers I would suggest it's more around the moderate warning but better safe than sorry

rusya's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

One of the best books I've read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, and Torture

Minor: Animal cruelty

enterprse's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

This was a difficult book to read- I was very close to DNF-ing around 100 pages in. 

The narative style is layered and often difficult to understand- the beginning stories don't connect to the main plot until the ending third of the book. Descriptions of places and fight scenes are overly detailed and quickly become muddy, making it hard to follow exactly what's happening. 

What made this book the most difficult to read is the constant degradation of female characters and grossly unnecessary descriptions of SA and death. Both of these are constant throughout the book, and do not really serve a larger function in the narrative. 

I do want to give credit for the things I enjoyed about this book- mainly the mythological creatures and the snappy dialogue exchanges between characters.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Sexism, and Homophobia

jasminenoack's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

So if I had to say I would say this is character driven, but really this book isn’t going anywhere it’s sort of just circling the drain. Which isn’t necessarily bad. But it’s not a very focused book. It’s not at all clear when the book is taking place until the last couple pages. And the rest of the book is like talking to that friend you have that just can’t stay on topic and have 30 page tangents about completely unrelated things. There are at least 2 basically unnecessary side plots that are given more pages than the actual plot. This reminds me more of Joyce and Kundera than game of thrones. 

I think this is the book you would get if you asked China Mielville to write a misogynist sci fi novel. Although I don’t think he would be willing to write this book. 

I will say in the authors defense I think he painted himself into a corner by choosing a really shitty misogynist as his narrator and he was honest to that choice. I don’t think it means anything about the author. I do think it’s interesting the second book is from a female and I want to see what that looks like. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Murder

bodiesinbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Body horror, Rape, Slavery, Vomit, Child death, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic friendship

f18's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Slavery, Infidelity, Sexual content, Gore, Cursing, Homophobia, Violence, Child death, Death, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Incest, and Drug use

Minor: Torture, Confinement, Death of parent, Sexism, Cannibalism, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Misogyny

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