Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang

21 reviews

theknitpick's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Violence, and Death

lilmor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.75

Couldn’t put it down. Yang writes with a deftness that reads so fluidly and leaves a reader clamoring for more without being sparse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gore, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, and Grief

lain_darko's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder, Child death, War, and Blood

Minor: Medical content and Racism

kylieqrada's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

4.5 ⭐️s. This one took a sec to get into, just because the writing is so next level. But once I got on a roll with it, it really shone. Gorgeous world-building, amazing characters, interesting gender dynamics. I felt like the pacing was spot on with this one as well. Will definitely be picking up the next one. 


Read for Beautifully Bookish Bethany's Tordotcomathon 2022

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy, Animal death, and Fire/Fire injury

orchidd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Medical trauma, Violence, Murder, War, and Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death and Pregnancy

gittejump's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Child death

lucystolethesky's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Murder, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Child death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Xenophobia

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Adult/minor relationship

jamielikestoread's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death and Murder

flameoflareon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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? No

5.0

This book was an amazing tale of fate vs. free will, sibling bonds, and magic. The magic system is wonderfully fresh as long as you don't mind picking up its rules from context clues. More so than just the magic system, but the world building around it, how magic existing affects religions and society and the people who can't do magic is creative an interesting. The main character(s) are compelling and the way the book handles gender is fascinating. I love this queer magic book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Murder and Police brutality

Minor: Child death

bi_blue's review against another edition

fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Gore, and Murder