Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

169 reviews

lilholmn's review

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-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: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Murder, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, and Homophobia

cerealceec's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

god this was hard to get through. the writing is extremely bland—lots of telling instead of showing, and taking way too many words to describe every single step of an action instead of letting things be implied.

i am not at all interested in sports so that probably didn't help with my enjoyment of the plot. but considering that this is a character-driven novel, i would really have liked some more heartfelt character development instead of these constant, repetitive, edgy interactions between the cast. unfortunately i just ended up feeling like i got absolutely nothing out of this book.

however, i have heard that the series gets much better as it goes, so there's a chance i'll try the second book in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Murder, and Suicide

katiec888's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Domestic abuse, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

books_of_calypso's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Murder, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Violence

katanai's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

the ending … left me on such a cliffhanger. cant wait to pick up the next book of the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Rape

the R word is used a bit by the coach as well as the F slur by a teammate.

kynthebookworm's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Addiction, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Cursing

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ashleycmms's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Body horror, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Blood, Bullying, Murder, Drug use, Drug abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Ableism, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, and Homophobia

devynsbookshelf's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Drug use

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape

valiiidus's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Animal death, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

paper_aphid's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Ableism, Death, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Car accident, Hate crime, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, and Murder