Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

52 reviews

greenmugsani's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, War, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical trauma, and Death

vanadiumbean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Slavery, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

neptunereign's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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? N/A

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Suicide, War, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Confinement, Child abuse, Blood, Antisemitism, and Abandonment

averyconfusedhomosapiensbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Physical abuse, Violence, and War

Moderate: Blood and Genocide

Minor: Alcohol and Murder

thresholdgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Violence and War

Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Antisemitism, Blood, Classism, and Racism

Minor: Child abuse

leocmd17's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

A few issues with the structure of the novel

such as Death witnessing things he had no way of knowing or any way for Liesel to have known (Hans tripping over the child’s dead body?), and his morbid obsession with Liesel despite only meeting her three times before he finds her book. Why did he stay to watch her cry over her family and friends when he’s never seen doing that before and actively states he doesn’t like to do so. Slight plot issues which bugged me

but overall an emotional and engaging read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Racism, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, and Genocide

isabellaft's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, and Religious bigotry

angel_lyd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-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? No

5.0

I can’t even begin to describe what this book put me through emotionally. I was recommended it by a friend and I decided to read it on holiday, thinking ‘surely it can’t be that emotional’. LORD was I mistaken. Liesel Meminger is a foster child who lives in a small German town during World War Two. Following the death of her brother, 9 year old Liesel moves in with the Hubermann family. It tells the story of her arrival to her foster family, her attempting to teach herself to read, a Jewish boxer hidden in their house from Nazi’s and much more. It was absolutely heartbreaking the entire way through and I just felt myself wishing I could hug this little girl. 

I won’t say a full spoiler, I will just simply state that near the end of the story something horrific and heartbreaking happens, so heartbreaking in fact that I was tearing up on my sun bed and I had to get a pinã colada to cure my sadness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Murder

This book discusses world war two, anybody uncomfortable with mentions of nazis, death, violence, antisemetism etc should not read this.

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Bullying, Suicide, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gore, Cursing, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Sexism, and Misogyny

ellieprb05's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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: Death and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Hate crime, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Genocide