Reviews tagging 'Murder'

We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal

46 reviews

doodeedoda's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Sexism, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

nadiaherondale's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-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? Yes

3.75

I've been thinking for days what to say in my review because I liked the series in the core, I was engaged with the characters, I ended up liking the world building even though I was a bit confused about it at first, but to be fair the writing bored me. The over prosaic narrative sometimes took me out of the story and I had to read some parts several times to understand it (granted English is not my first language, but I have studied it for 20 years and I've never had any problems reading other books). I think the book (and the series) is good, just that the writing style is not for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Death

xynub_456's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Friggin' amazing.
if you really love the first book as much as you wanted to, take my advice, and pick up the second one it beautifully written and will be worth your time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Murder, and Death of parent

paigeinabook's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Addiction, Violence, Sexual content, and Child abuse

tahsintries's review against another edition

emotional

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Grief, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, and Blood

bri__'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

The last part of this book was great but I definitely found that alot of the middle was dragged and that caused me to take a week in completing this book. The writing is impeccable and the plot is insanely complex.

I loved Nasir so much throughout this series but I found Zafira to be a very complicated character to deal with due to her tendency to run away from her problems (being her relationship with Nasir). Yes there was some partial enemies to lovers in this duology but he fell in love with her during their time on Sharr so I wouldn't say it was that long a period of time. As stated already I did enjoy the ending, I'm just disappointed we didn't get to see more of the possible dynamic between Altair and Yasmine or the actual effect of magic among the community since we only got to see snippets.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, War, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Minor: Child death and Infertility

sydapel's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

3.75

wowzers this book was LONG. It's so intricately done, and the characters really are given their time to shine here, but a lot of the plot intricacies I felt I should have understood completely flew over my head. Though I don't believe that the length was justified and I felt only minorly satisfied at the conclusion (just let Zafira and Nasir have ONE cute moment I'm BEGGING you), it gets a high rating bc there just aren't enough epic fantasy stories out there that capture the lore and culture of the Middle East like this does. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Death, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Physical abuse, Gore, Sexism, Misogyny, Murder, and Emotional abuse

cappuccino_yuki_teddy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

maeverose's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Murder, Confinement, and Gore

Minor: Grief and Misogyny

Loss of control over your thoughts and actions is a pretty big theme throughout

The main character is attached to this book that has a conscience and it drives her to brutally murder someone and generally makes her want to kill

stllyltc's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

Kifah and Zafira, with all of their lines so deeply etched with the titles to a meaning, there are times when you find a story specifically mentioning its title and think it's a cliché, but this one was beautifully done. It's striking how the author honed the characters and their development. This deep understanding of feelings and emotions allows readers to relate to and identify with them. Reading this felt complete, and it is unquestionably endowed with perfection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Murder, Child death, Abandonment, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Torture, and Violence