Reviews tagging 'Murder'

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

247 reviews

graceev's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, and Murder

marieeveparentroy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Sexual assault, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

whimsicalish's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

I had fun reading this book. I have never read anything from this author before, but I would definitely be open to more of their works.

I think the only disappointment factor was the open ending. I'm not really a fan of a non solid ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol and Bullying

brooketreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

It wasn’t quite what I thought it would be. Sure it had darkish elements, but it didn’t feel fully fleshed out… no pun intended there. I also kind of wish Grey had been the main character. I found her more interesting than our actual main character Iris. I found Vivi boring. And the idea that these three super close sisters were so completely different from each other just didn’t make sense to me. I did really like the mom though. I thought the book started out pretty strong, but as it went on I just started to get bored. Then, I didn’t really enjoy the end, as in the whole last part after they find Grey. There’s basically two mysteries and we only get an answer to one. I hated the love angle that was thrown in. One, it wasn’t believable.

Two, he was Iris’ sister Grey’s on again-off again boyfriend.

I had been so exited to read this, and I definitely thought it was going to be a 5 star.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Child death, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol

The sexual assault is marked for a couple reasons that contain spoilers:

One, a man does try to sexually assault the MC Iris. And two, there’s this weird issue with consent because our MC and her sisters have power to influence others and are so extremely attractive that it makes people want to kiss them. Some do in the story even though they may not want to or shouldn’t.

blackthornfaery's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Gore, Body horror, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Sexual assault

kassea_xoxo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? N/A

5.0

I LOVED the way this story was carried out. It unfolded with lots of little clues. It all built up to a very spectacular story with wonderful twists and turns! A great book, that I binged on this weekend.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Stalking, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

sparklingstarling's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Child death, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Suicide, Self harm, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Gun violence

aecoralie's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

edit: i'm bumping it to five stars, i can't stop thinking about this book

this book was awesome, i loved the magical realism and the aesthetic of it, but it was way too disturbing for me to rate it five stars. be mindful of the trigger warnings, there were some scenes that left me reeling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Rape, Stalking, Suicide, Torture, Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Violence, Mental illness, Blood, Vomit, and Child death

kaz_brekkerrr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Blood, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol

flute_frog_7's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

4.0

I really liked this book overall. The story was super intense and engaging, and it sucked me in right away. The character relationships were really deep and interesting.
The only thing I didn’t like was that the gore was a bit too much for me, to the point where I felt nauseous during the last third of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Murder, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child death, Trafficking, Vomit, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexism, Alcohol, and Alcoholism