Reviews tagging 'Murder'

La reina de los condenados by Anne Rice

12 reviews

bolivianrash's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Genocide, Grief, Dysphoria, Murder, Slavery, Toxic relationship, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Cannibalism

Minor: Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Sexism, Misogyny, Body horror, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death

jelliestars's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Blood, Body horror, Death, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Incest, Sexism, Genocide, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Colonisation, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Mass/school shootings, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Abortion, Car accident, Gun violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Chronic illness, Excrement, Hate crime, Slavery, Xenophobia, Medical content, Racism, War, and Suicidal thoughts

cyberhavok's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Gore, Body horror, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Cannibalism, Sexual assault, and Rape

avie_j's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Death, Blood, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Slavery

jackbifrost's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Slavery, Cannibalism, Toxic relationship, Death, Genocide, Grief, Racism, War, Classism, Colonisation, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape and Addiction

Minor: Abortion

econsidine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

If you've made it to QotD, I'm assuming you're already on board for vampire melodrama and excessive use of words like "pearlescent." If so, you'll probably like this book. I enjoyed it a lot, like the previous two, and Lestat as the main narrator still manages to be on the right side of ridiculously-egomaniacal-with-a-conscience. He's very close to becoming insufferable to read about, but isn't yet.

Some things that don't work as well: the framing device is a lot weaker than in previous books, and as it's set up like episodic short stories, not all of the sections are winners. To Anne Rice's credit, though, most of it is compelling, and I was consistently surprised by just how weird and expansive she continued to make the universe without it feel overstuffed or convoluted. Special shout out to The Devil's Minion (a gripping, off-the-wall 30-page section that's very unrelated to the plot) and to Pandora (my favorite new character). I'm not sure all the stuff I found funny was actually meant to be funny, but the humor was hilarious, even more so because it caught me by surprise.

Overall, it starts strong, has some great moments, starts to drag for a while, and then ends good again. There's murder. There's kissing. There's a section called "Baby Jenks and the Fang Gang" and a vampire who collects blenders. What more do you want?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Murder, Blood, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Slavery, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

chocolatewine's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Pretty good. I liked the mix of perspectives, it was interesting to get the story from different points of view. If you like the previous Vampire Chronicles books, you'll probably like this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Rape

lnolen01's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death, Genocide, Murder, Gore, Blood, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Death of parent

ariel_is_a_dreamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

I love this series. I like the writing, the moral questions. The beginning was a little boring, but I couldn't put it down by the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Cannibalism, Grief, Sexual assault, Murder, Genocide, and Rape

Minor: Abortion and Cultural appropriation

ginameix's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Murder, Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Rape