Reviews tagging 'Murder'

To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

91 reviews

zombie4brainz's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Rape and Slavery

Minor: Animal death, Murder, Death, Grief, and Misogyny

It is very slow imo, I think it's supposed to be though. It's narrated by a child so it's wrote kinda like a diary. there are a ton of character-driven plots and the action doesn't really pick up until the very end. I enjoyed the ending though. It just isn't my type of book, but well written.

emeh's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Hate crime, Murder, and Sexual assault

Minor: Drug abuse, Violence, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

akore56's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective 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

5.0

For some reason my English teachers never had us read this in high school. I was always curious to know why this was such a class and who the heck was Boo Radley. Some classics can be tough to get through because their slow or hard to relate to present society. This book gives insight to what the south was like during the Depression Era. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Bullying, Murder, Hate crime, and Slavery

al_nagle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Murder and Rape

nele_zsl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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

4.25

Took me a while to get into it in the beginning, sat on my shelf for about a year, but around halfway in I got hooked and really enjoyed the story and characters. Made me very emotional towards the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Murder

miljahonen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Racism

Minor: Rape

yasaman's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racial slurs, Violence, Rape, Murder, Death, Racism, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

zombiebrainz's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Minor: Murder, Misogyny, and Rape

meganpbennett's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I read To Kill A Mockingbird in school, probably when I was not much older that Scout. I was way too young to really know what was going on in the story, though I understood the important parts and knew who the mockingbird in the story is. 

Scout opens the story by mentioning that Jem, her brother, had his arm broken one year. Then the story resets to when the story really started, several years earlier, the summer they met Dill. Dill, who resembles Truman Capote, drives the story along that summer, with his interest in the Radley House and Boo Radley. This theme continues throughout the story, with them trying to get a glimpse of Boo. 

The book is evenly divided between Scout's life, both at school and at home, and the trial that takes center stage: Atticus Finch is defending a black man unjustly accused of raping a white woman. In Alabama. In the 1930s. The trial and the verdict play heavily into the last 50-75 pages of the book, with the action (and Jem's broken arm) happening very near the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Death, Hate crime, Violence, Sexual assault, and Murder

marionrosa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative reflective tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Rape, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Murder and Violence