Reviews tagging 'Death'

Ik ben Pelgrim by Terry Hayes

7 reviews

annatroughton's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Gun violence, Murder, Death, Grief, War, Blood, Medical content, Torture, and Kidnapping

saskiahill's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, War, Suicide, Murder, Medical content, Islamophobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Blood, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Torture, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Sexism, Self harm, Misogyny, and Alcoholism

Minor: Pregnancy

sarahyjackson's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

An outside of my typical genre read! I always enjoy puzzling through a mystery/thriller and the scope and scale of the various mysteries in this thriller were certainly engaging and impressive. 

There are some elements of the story that were really hard for me to read - check content warnings!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Vomit, Death, Child abuse, Torture, Islamophobia, Medical content, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide, Antisemitism, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Ableism

CW: Fanaticism and terrorism

hilarylouise's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexual violence

Contains content about terrorism and jihad, with a potentially “black and white” filter - some hints at the school of thought that says Americans are good, the Middle East is bad.

zoenne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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

2.5

Really not sure what to say about this book. The pacing is a bit all over the place (the narrative jumps around a lot) and it only really comes together (somewhat clumsily) at the end. But still, it did not feel nearly as long as its page count. Not sure if I'd recommend it, especially as one of the main plotlines is left hanging, and the author seems to be very bad at publishing (some people who pre-ordered his new -- unrelated -- book 3 years ago are still waiting)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Terminal illness, Death, and Torture

georgiajala's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

I read this entire book, which I kind of regret. It felt sexist and islamophobic in how it described and portrayed female characters. Also, I didn't really appreciate reading a book written by a white man that portrays Muslim people as violent. 
Not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Torture

fscolli93's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia