Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen

8 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

vagaybond's review against another edition

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

at first I was like "eugh this will be copaganda won't it" AND THEN IT WAS REVERSE COPAGANDA!!!!!! 🎉🥳🎇🎊 like the protagonist's backstory is overcoming his past as a cop and the bad rep that cops have in the queer community and the guilt he feels about having been one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Violence, Alcohol, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Murder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

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

purplepenning's review against another edition

mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Such a great balance of classic gumshoe mystery, well-researched midcentury history, and skillful character development. Detective Andy Mills is finding his way, his community, and his calling — and I'm finding an arc of book 3 because these are some of the most satisfying mysteries I've read in a long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Racism, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Violence, Hate crime, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia

Minor: Sexual content

blackmail, threat of outing via explicit photos

iridescentdreams's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Homophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Violence, Torture, Murder, and Death

Minor: Racism

kharlan3's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

Top misc (mystery) of 2023

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Police brutality, and Outing

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