Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Northern Spy by Flynn Berry

7 reviews

mimlleigh's review

dark hopeful mysterious 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage

nodogsonthemoon's review

dark sad 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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: War, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mass/school shootings, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

leahrosiee's review

tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gun violence, War, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Miscarriage, Classism, Colonisation, and Confinement

Minor: Pregnancy and Infidelity

gnuoymas's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

3.5

i think it’s an interesting look into the complexities of inter personal relationships in the time of war!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Kidnapping

clarebell23's review

dark emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping and Murder

lit_with_lauren's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage

linesiunderline's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book was not what I expected. It is pitched in many reviews as a thriller, and I think many thriller readers who go into it with that label in mind will be disappointed, because it’s much quieter in feeling overall than most thrillers. It’s more character study than page turner.

The short chapters gave this book a fragmented, urgent feeling. While the slim length leaves you with a sense of parts of the story remaining unexplored, untold, uncertain, and this is perhaps a part of the point of the novel, I wouldn’t have complained if it was longer.

Read this book if you like an evocative sense of place, complex sibling relationships, narratives about moral dilemmas, lyrical writing, and stories that invite you to contemplate the complexity of humanity.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence