Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Court by Tracy Wolff

14 reviews

beccaperson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death of parent

ashleereadsbooks692's review

medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Physical abuse, Grief, Genocide, Murder, War, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, and Forced institutionalization

spiderdrac's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Death, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Cursing

Minor: Death of parent

scarlett_f's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Violence, War, and Sexual content

LGBTQ+

kirahaycock21's review

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.25

I think this was my least favorite book in the series (but still SUCH a great book.) It took a long time to get into the meat of the book and it dragged in the middle, but I loved the story and how it fit into the other books.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Cursing, and Death

Minor: Violence, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

birdie770's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Torture, and Murder

aseel_reads's review

funny lighthearted 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

2.75

If this wasn't as long as it was, it would have been a fine/fun read but the length meant it was such a slog to get through. I liked the new info we got on the gargoyle court in this one, and the family connections revealed were fun

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Confinement, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Torture, and War

ix37lexi'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Loved the action and additional world building in this book, we learned a lot of new things about these characters and their backstories and it was still interesting and new four books in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Confinement, Blood, Murder, War, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

2.5

Nine. Hundred. Pages. For what?? Tracy, my girl, this is unnecessary. 
I said in my last review (covet, #3) that the writing was getting marginally better with each book and I’d now like to formally retract that statement. Grace has become insufferable, but it’s not ALL the characters fault, it’s just bad writing. Her internal monologue is so painfully repetitive that it’s near insulting to the reader. If an editor had cut out all the rendundant content you could literally remove hundreds of pages. Having finished this book, I wish there weren’t more. I will read them, of course, but I’m not overly happy about it. I will see this through! 

A few of the most heinously abused and repeated phrases in this book that I hope I never have to read again: 
“My Mate” - we get it. Stop saying it every other sentence 
“You’re ridiculous, you know that right?”
“Force a smile/grin that I’m far from feeling”
“Smile/grin that doesn’t reach his/her/their eyes” 
“Choke back bile in the back of my throat” 
“Laughs without humor”

Side note: for all the novels in this series up until this one I have switched back and forth between reading the ebook and listening to the audiobook to get through them quickly. Don’t listen to this audiobook - the narrator regularly gets the characters accents mixed up mid dialogue and it’s SO confusing. (For example: They’ll say something in Hudson’s voice that Hudson did NOT say, and I’d have to go back to the book to figure out what actually happened in conversation). There’s also continuity issues with pronunciation that is not earth shattering but bothered me to no end (for example, Mehki’s name is suddenly pronounced entirely differently in this book versus the first 3). I had to stop listening and just trudge thru this one the old fashioned way, this perhaps lent to me being more triggered by the writing 🤣

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Mental illness, Vomit, Torture, Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Cursing, Abandonment, Classism, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, War, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

bookedandbusy's review

dark mysterious 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

This series just keeps getting better and better. The ending of this blew my mind and I absolutely cannot wait to dive into book five!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders