Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Les sept morts d'Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

116 reviews

helenferg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

cmbohn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

silver_lining_in_a_book's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

elliizzzabeth's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Really interesting twist on the murder mystery novel. I loved getting to see the same day through the eyes of different people, and how each host's thoughts and personalities affected Aiden and his view of the situation. Really well thought out, it must have been an incredible feat to try and plot everyone's days and weave the clues to all of the mysteries spread between them. However, I found it quite hard to keep up with who all of the characters were as there were so many of them and none of them stood out too much. More than a few times Aiden would mention someone and I would be scratching my head trying to remember who they were. And I read through pretty quickly so Lord help you if you take a significant break and try and pick it back up again. It took a while for Aiden to learn about the murder, let alone dive into solving it, so he was playing catch up to the basic info on the blurb for longer than I would have liked. Also if you are more interested in the murder mystery than anything (as I was) it was a little bit annoying how much Aiden gets sidetracked doing other things. 
But overall a very good read! Would highly recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Rape, and Sexual assault

elle_dee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

booknerdbetty's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

sunny_not's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This was close to being a 4 to 5 star read for me. I loved it the first 350ish pages. However, I hated the ending so much. What was that??? What kinda resolution is that???  

Why was Anna such an awful person in real life? The fact that she literally tortured and killed the main character's sister???? How was I supposed to feel for her after that? It just ruined the book for me.

I'm giving it this rating for the rest of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

leahrosiee's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Most of this book would have been 2 stars for how I struggled through it but it was unlike any other mystery I’ve experienced so it gains another star. Maybe in a different mood or time I would have liked it better. The way the story spirals in on itself is insane and I truly would have never seen the ending coming, which is frustrating and great at the same time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Self harm and Abandonment

sarahmae531's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

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

3.5

For a lot of this book I felt like I wasn’t smart enough to understand it. Now looking back at the whole book, I’m not sure if it was that or if that was its goal. It was pretty hard to follow at some parts, and the beginning was kind of slow/confusing, but once I kind of got a hang on how the book worked the second half felt (kind of) easier, and also more suspenseful. As good as it was though, I felt myself getting a headache trying to do the mental gymnastics. Think this would be a great movie since actually seeing it all happen might be easier to understand..

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault

katrinasherise's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book so much. However I could have entirely done without the significant fat phobia in several chapters of this book. That aside, I was totally engrossed in this story. I love that I didn’t have any clue what the ending would be. I was thoroughly shocked at several points in the story. The story was extremely clever and exciting. And an interesting look into values and morals of character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Infidelity, Abandonment, and Classism

One character is a serial rapist. No rape happens in the book but is mentioned during his chapters. One character is FREQUENTLY described in fat phobic descriptors. The story is about murder and several occur including descriptions, blood, guns, drowning, injury, stabbing, etc. lots of drug and alcohol use. Description of a child’s murder. Things that will really spoil the ending/reveals:

Infidelity, children from that infidelity. Murder by suicide and plots of faking a suicide.