Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Toll by Neal Shusterman

67 reviews

aviery's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, and Gun violence

hannahr's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Moderate: Blood, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Violence

honeybadger11492's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder

friendlyneighborhoodidiot's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

THE ENDING IS PERFECT I LOVED IT SO MUCH

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Medical content, Murder, and Violence

its_van_vulpen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Torture

Minor: Suicide

The first half of the novel was fairly confusing as the story was constantly skipping throughout the timeline. If you are not a fan of multiple perspectives, this is not the book for you as we are not only given the perspectives of the major characters, but also of random side-characters that are only minimally relevant to the story I did really enjoy the social commentary on real life politics and religion present throughout the novel.

The character of Greyson Tolliver as The Toll and the Tonists perception of him shows how supposed religious figures and miracles can, in reality, just be regular people and misunderstood events.

*Minor Spoiler Ahead* The main romance in the novel was a little unbelievable to me as the two characters spent relatively little time with each other not only in this book, but in the whole series. Despite that, I'm not a particularly picky person so it personally doesn't bother me and I liked the two characters together.

invaderlinz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Murder, Grief, Gore, and Death

caidyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

CW: death and deception

Wow. What a finale. It wasn't perfect, but it was a very satisfying ending for me.

The story picks up after the end of The Thunderhead. If you haven't read it, I'm probably going to spoil it, so y'all should look away now who haven't read it and want to remain as pure as possible for this series!

Gone? Good.

Citra and Rowan have gone missing and are presumed dead. The Thunderhead has now deemed everyone unsavory except for Greyson. Scythe Goddard has lost his damn mind and has taken over the scythedom of MidMerica and has decided to stop the limits on gleanings. Aka, scythes can now glean whenever they want to and however many they feel like. The whole world is going to hell in a handbasket.

This book was completely different than the other ones. There were so many new characters and perspectives, along with trying to get used to this new world since it had radically changed between the end of the last book and the start of this one. It definitely took a learning curve. It's been months since I had read the first two books and part of me kind of wished I had read them last month so I could really remember every detail before going into this.

I really loved how the world expanded in this book. We got to see how other scythedoms work and how other countries are. I gotta say, I loved the queerness aspect of the one world we really got exposed to. It was wonderful! Probably my favorite part of the book right there.

All in all, a satisfying end to this series. I'm really sad to see it go! But, I also can't wait to be able to reread the series so I can fully see the arc from start to finish.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Murder