Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen

16 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

Loved the premise, but the execution didn't hold my attention

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, Confinement, Slavery, Alcohol, and Animal death

Minor: Colonisation

a_random_fangirl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Colonisation, Murder, Slavery, Death, and Gore

meredeath6's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Physical abuse, Murder, Slavery, and Violence

bbygirl21's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This is a good book. It just wasn't my favorite. I'm mostly a romance reader, so even in a mythology packed fantasy book, I need at least some romance in it, and they're just wasn't in this book. The main character and the boy she saved are supposed to like each other, but I just didn't feel any romantic chemistry between them. Maybe that develops more in the second book, but I don't plan on reading that yet. 

I did get quite emotional at some parts. Especially when it came to a particular death scene. I thought the writing was great, even if it wasn't for me. The ending was really good as well. 

The ending is done well enough that you wouldn't necessarily need to read the second book. Yes it ends kind of open ended, with some questions left unanswered. But I don't necessarily consider it a cliffhanger. You could stop with this book and be fine in my opinion. 

Overall this is a good book. I loved the mythology and the plotline. I wanted more romance, but if that's not your thing this is definitely for you. I'd probably still recommend this even if it wasn't entirely for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Grief, Blood, Death, Genocide, Confinement, Murder, Colonisation, Child death, Racism, Slavery, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, and Trafficking

Minor: Pregnancy

amyhasel's review

adventurous hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Slavery, and Death

avisreadsandreads's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

paigeinabook's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Minor: Deportation, Child death, Death, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, Cultural appropriation, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Medical content, Trafficking, Body shaming, Colonisation, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racism, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Xenophobia

kaiyakaiyo's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


I need book 2. today. Holy moly 

Loved this: black people doing black things and yes it does involve incredibly traumatic slave ship experience, but it doesn’t feel like one of those “let’s zoom in on black pain” sort of takes. It’s more like what magic & belief existed at that time, and how was it impacted by the slave trade? Magic coexists with history well in this, which I really liked. 

Ultimately I just loved this, despite the ending causing me to do a literal double take when I realized that I’d reached the last page 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Murder

Moderate: Violence and Blood

Minor: Rape

readlexread's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

kendal_reads's review

adventurous emotional sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Slavery and Suicide