Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

73 reviews

sage_alexandra's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Would probably have rated higher if not for the first few chapters. Maybe 4 or 5 chapters in was when the story finally picked up, but I'm glad I pushed through! The beginning was too much untethered exposition and vague character explanations, but it all came together quite quickly, and then I finished the rest of the (audio)book in under 24 hours.

Pretty extraordinary book, and the narrator, Kit Griffiths, is phenomenal!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

a lot of graphic knife/blade injuries,

flaying of skin

, descriptions of pain revolving around the cutting. none of it in a suicide-selfharm sort of way, just girlies doing casual blood sacrifices to demons!

issyfrp99's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

4.75

Absolutely perfect story. A quarter of a point docked for incorrect Latin grammar because it’s a pet peeve of mine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, and Murder

yayathegreat38's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Murder

hahibbard's review

challenging dark inspiring fast-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

Quite dark, but interesting magic and liked the characters. Engaging the whole way through 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm

pryingblackbird's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Homophobia, and Kidnapping

wren_08's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

daisysbookmusings's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

oh im so glad I finished this book, I loved the ending so bloody much!!! The only reason it's not a full 5 stars is because I found Zaras story the most compelling in th beginning but then felt she got sort of put to the side and it became predominantly Jude's story. I found Jude loveable eventually but difficult to connect with her for a long while hence the drop in stars, her story did eventually become great though and the take with her family was very Bella Mackie's How To Kill Your Family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

caoxtina's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

jess_noack's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

The book took a little bit to get going but once it did it didn't stop. I adored the dynamic between Emer (a witch/cursewriter), Jude ( cursed and a billionaire's daughter) and Zara (wants to bring her sister back from dead). Three women thrown together in pretty shitty circumstances who ultimately band together when Emer's clients start turning up dead. The book is quite dark and has a focus on male entitlement and misogyny and the impact on the women in the story. The three women are fierce, well-rounded characters and really carry the narrative with their determination to catch the killer and meet their own goals.

There was more gore and violence than I was expecting, paricularly violence (including death) against women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

goodmornindreamer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

The beginning of the book started out a bit slow for me and was difficult to get into with switching between 3 POVs. But once I got further in the book things started to flow and I became invested in the story.

The 3 main characters were easy to differentiate between while I was reading and it was easy to get invested in their storylines. I did not see things taking the dark turn that they did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail