Reviews tagging 'War'

The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen

6 reviews

growintogardens's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

Better than the first and the mc is growing on me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Murder, Lesbophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Death, Alcohol, Outing, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Medical content, War, Racism, and Grief

thatchickengirl23's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Homophobia

Moderate: Murder, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, War, Sexual content, and Violence

shinypurplepants's review

adventurous emotional mysterious

• 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

4.5

Incredibly slow burn on the mystery in this one but it works really well as a character study of our noir detective, Andy, as he comes to terms with his past and works toward his (hopefully happy) future!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Misogyny, Murder, and Homophobia

Moderate: War

laura_keoski's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Outing, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Violence and Racial slurs

Minor: Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, War, Toxic friendship, and Suicidal thoughts

schnaucl'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

4.5

I really enjoyed it.  It was interesting to get a glimpse of the contradiction in serving during WWII.  The impression I have is that it wasn't completely free, of course, and the gay people serving must have worried their limited freedom would go back to what it had been before the war (or, realistically, be even worse, as the backlash always seems to be).  

As maybe an indication of how times had changed, I assumed Donna's killer cared about her because of her closed eyes and thought she must have been dumped in a place where people who cared that she had died would find her and honor her.   It didn't occur to me that it would be a way of shutting down the bar, though of course that makes perfect sense.

I'm sorry Sidney turned out to be the killer.  I liked him.  I liked that he was able to live with his husband and thought Mills being on a retainer in a hotel had some interesting possibilities for future stories.

I loved Lee, and I was glad to see things progressing with Gene.   I'm happy for Elise but hope we still get to see her next time.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: War and Racism

bookenbee's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Police brutality

Moderate: Violence, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, War, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Gun violence, Racism, Outing, Sexism, Medical content, Colonisation, Death, and Drug use