Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

8 reviews

kattyenn's review

dark reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Child abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Murder

nerdy_reader_9571's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape

ohnoitscoco's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Car accident, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death and Grief

brooketreads's review

challenging emotional sad 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

5.0

Ya’ll these last two chapters wrecked me 😥 Initially, I was at a loss for words. I had to take a couple days to sit on this book to write a coherent review. 

I wasn’t sure about this book at first. It just didn’t feel like my typical read, and was truly not expecting to like it. But, it completely surprised me. Such great writing from Morgan Talty. I felt immersed in the story. I had expected this to be a horror (based on the title 😆), but it ended up being less fantasy/scifi horror, more real life horror. This book was literally gutting me all the way through like with the MC’s grandma having dementia… I wasn’t sure how this book was going to end, but I would have never guessed what happened. I gasped, I cried. Read this.

Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Dementia, Child death, and Murder

anahisa's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

THE HITS KEPT COMING AND THEY NEVER STOPPED. 

A reading experience that made me feel both haunted + hunted! Love how Talty subverts horror tropes in these stories. I’m finding myself at a loss for words because it’s such an incredibly raw narrative it feels wrong to talk about in passing. While I highly recommend picking this one up, advise the trigger warnings!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Rape, Violence, Vomit, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Child death, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Infertility, and Sexual assault

readingwithkaitlyn's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Murder, Mental illness, Ableism, Drug use, Grief, Chronic illness, Racism, Death, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Child abuse, and Body shaming

Moderate: Car accident and Infidelity

Minor: Child death and Rape

Neglect, fraud, MMIWG2S, drowning, intergenerational trauma, baby addicted to methodone, postpartum depression,

mcc004's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Grief, Dementia, Drug abuse, Death, Child death, Miscarriage, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Infertility, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Pregnancy

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Dementia, Drug use, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia and Ableism