Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

28 reviews

atamano's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Dementia and Suicide

ksuazo94's review

adventurous challenging hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, and Murder

strawberrypinch's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Drug use, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Alcohol, Dementia, Terminal illness, Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Car accident, Torture, and Suicide

kathleencoughlin's review

medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

I set this book aside for a while and tbh I wish I had left it unfinished. I had a lot of issues with the book that I won't bother to go into. 

However,

I'm just absolutely baffled that Crouch thought, after everything that happened before and during the main plot of thr book, that the best ending would be more nonconsensual gene editing. I just don't even know where to begin with how problematic that is.

If you want to read something about upgraded humans, save yourself some time by skipping this and reading Ted Chiang's short story "Understand." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical trauma, Confinement, and Gun violence

Moderate: Murder, Blood, and Car accident

Minor: Death of parent

mynameisrebecca's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, War, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

onlyonebookshelf's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: War, Gun violence, and Genocide

ripxw's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Genocide, Suicide, and Murder

sneakysnam's review

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Murder

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

 I loved this book. The ending was perfect! You don't get a perfect ending with everything told to you. It doesn't end happily ever after, but that's what I love about Blake Crouch's books! I would have liked a bit more about his wife, Ava, Nadine, and Kara, but other than that perfect! It was a wild ride. I laughed, I cried, and I gasped in surprise. It was just a great book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic friendship, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Confinement, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicide, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, and Terminal illness

katrinarose's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Dark Matter and Recursion were both better than this one, but I still enjoyed it. Fast paced, interesting sci fi concepts, balanced with some philosophizing about humanity, but just a bit lacking in character development and the truly mind bending stuff of his other books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Confinement, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Murder