Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

55 reviews

anna_hepworth's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

This is a very difficult story to read --mostly because it deals with some awful things, but also because a) I found the viewpoint character, a 13 year old boy, very difficult to stay engaged with and b) there are lots of layers of what is going on, all the time, and I struggled to keep track. 

Well worth having stuck through having to borrow it from the library four times, each time having to wait through the hold queue!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Murder, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

library_anne's review

dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Murder, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Cursing, and Hate crime

pettywhaler's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Murder, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Grief, and Hate crime

lydiamcleod's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

Moving, deeply sad, tragic, and hopeful at the same time. A whole meal of a book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Rape, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Ableism

Moderate: Death and Religious bigotry

audreyolejasz's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

2.0

The main character is kunda of a pervert...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Car accident, Drug use, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Blood, and Pedophilia

lauren_cutshall's review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Racism

sestout's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Racism, Sexual content, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, and Religious bigotry

andrewhatesham's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Rape, and Violence

taylorlanxon's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Gun violence, and Hate crime

Moderate: Sexual assault

brooketreads's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Author Louise Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.

Wow! This book is heavy all the dang way through. I could make a list. Off the jump the story had me worried for Mom, Geraldine, and I hadn’t even meet her on page yet! Dad’s getting worried and I felt so immersed in the story. The interconnectivity through the story, I’m looking at you Linda. 😳 and that ending! I really enjoyed Joe’s friends joining together to help him through the story as well.

Additional:

What holds me back from a five star is that I felt this was a little long. It could have been condensed a little bit in my opinion. I found pretty much all of Sonja and Whities scenes unnecessary to the story as a whole. I also don’t like when there are teens in a story and adding sexualization. This is completely a me issue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, and Rape

Minor: Alcohol

This does also cover PTSD following a violent rape.