Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

21 reviews

ronan_lesh's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Cultural appropriation

20sidedbi's review against another edition

challenging 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion

sarahjulianna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Miscarriage, Medical content, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

maria_elizabeth_harden_pope's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

2.75

I think there's really too much going on in this book. The meditations on women, on new life, on pregnancy, on the divine are really beautiful, and I appreciate the main character and her perspective a bunch. But the plot well.... it's hard to follow... there's maybe not quite enough exposition about the world (which is maybe intentional- but it could have been executed better)... and a lot of plot points feel sort of out of the blue/ not well-incorporated. I also think that the way that the main character's indigenous identity was explored felt like an afterthought. It could have been more integral to the book or not done at all.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Pregnancy

badmom's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, Violence, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Grief, and Religious bigotry

delvesinshelves's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Violence, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Torture

becksusername's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

Wow this did not have a happy ending. At all. I really wanted it to. This book was so good and had such an original premise, I was definitely hooked immediately and tore through it.

Re-Read: Holy fucking shit I love this book. The ending fucked me up all over again, but in a different way because I knew what was coming.

the part at the end where she describes the end of winter in Minnesota had me on the brink of tears. We don't know it's heaven. Fuck. And of course the whole premise is so much creepier given the current state of women's bodily autonomy in the US. Fuuuuuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Outing

Moderate: Kidnapping and Murder

Minor: Drug use, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, and Fire/Fire injury

corinnereads7's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, and Pregnancy

datamonkey's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, and Pregnancy

mikki_9's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Torture