Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

29 reviews

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Alcohol, Homophobia, Sexual content, Death, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Sexism, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Outing, Grief, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, and Misogyny

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

natanidae's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Abortion, Infidelity, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: War, Suicidal thoughts, and Miscarriage

endlessbummer__'s review

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Physical abuse, Violence, Abortion, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Death, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, and Outing

jen_b22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Abortion

hamletslover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical content, Blood, Grief, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Sexism, Infidelity, Death, and Toxic relationship

linguaphile412's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Abortion, Murder, Infidelity, and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Misogyny, Vomit, and Homophobia

sillylittlereader's review

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Murder

whatcassiedid's review

dark emotional reflective slow-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

4.0

For once my refusal to read a synopsis pays off! This was a wild ride.

I thought the only twist was the affair but then the murder and covering up of the murder was unhinged.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Lesbophobia

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This book is a long haul, but it keeps good intensity up throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Grief, Murder, Blood, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Classism, Child death, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Body horror, and Bullying

Minor: Death of parent

madysonlorraine's review

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

After struggling with reading The Paying Guests outright I decided to give the audio book a try since it was available on Scribd. While the narration was enjoyable and I’m glad to have gotten a better ear and some practice on my Londoner accent, overall this book was a disappointment for me. Unfortunately Sarah Waters seems to have a talent for making everything boring. Literally everything. There’s something that happens in this book that is sooo unexpected and exciting! And it was so interesting and not boring! And then it got taken and was turned into this long long long draaaaawwwwn out thing and was almost unbearably boring again. I think I’ve read YA love stories that were better and more genuine than this. Somehow in this 500+ page novel the characters were underdeveloped and nearly static. I grew tired of their problems and concerns, and sadly that’s what the whole book was about. I almost DNFd it but I don’t like doing that and I had already come so far.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol and Murder