Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

14 reviews

disguisedposer's review against another edition

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

4.0

Absolutely loved this and it's going to stick with me for a while. I highly recommend that you listen to the audiobook version because the narrator doing the different voices I think created 85% of the creepy factor. The story itself was probably pretty creepy on its own, but the VOICES! 😳😳😳 If you had told me prior to this year that I would enjoy and recommend an audiobook over reading I'd have said you were delusional, but here we are! Narration is 4.5*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Child death, Mental illness, Gore, Violence, Gaslighting, Body horror, Cultural appropriation, Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

moebrownie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.5

The prologue was peak horror writing, but unfortunately the book goes downhill from there. The challenges the characters face become repetitive and tiring. I personally found the ending wholly unsatisfying. I also don’t understand how you follow up your book with an entire passage about wanting to be sensitive about writing indigenous characters and experiences right after

killing off the main two indigenous characters in the book??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Gore, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Colonisation

bbelitz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Violence, and Vomit

creatureof_nature's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This really grabbed me for the first 60% or so of the book, but the ending was lacklustre. It had the potential, but it died off closer to the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, Death, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Child death

zapzap9000's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Child death, Colonisation, Miscarriage, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Torture, Physical abuse, Stalking, and Vomit

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

if i would’ve known the author wasn’t an indigenous individual, i wouldn’t have read this and recommend that you don’t read this. in terms of the plot, the beginning and middle are pretty good, but the ending is awful. the author also uses indigenous characters, history, folklore, etc. to further the story/plot for the white characters and then proceeds to kill off the indigenous characters??? only for the white characters who caused all of the problems for the now dead indigenous characters to walk away safe and happy? at the end of the book the author goes to speak on the exploitation of indigenous voices and stories but does that exact thing in the book he just wrote??? it almost feels like a joke.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Racism, Child death, Cursing, Murder, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Violence, and Animal death

tabsmith's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is one of the very few that have given me a nightmare or two.

I have this thing with passing by a window and seeing someone pressed against it or just being stared at unknowingly in general. Which happens at one point.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a spook or five.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Stalking, and Grief

Moderate: Vomit and Miscarriage

Minor: Child death

dcolligan88's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Violence, Child death, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, and Blood

asteinke's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This is the creepiest book I have ever read and I loved every minute of it. The ending was a bit disappointing, but overall I think it is worth the read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Grief, and Murder

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Animal death, Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Torture, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit