Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

33 reviews

stagemanaginger's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A very beautiful, poetic book! It’s a quick read and worth every second of it. It is dark and haunting, but also beautiful and moving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

maybephasing's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, Death of parent, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault, Child death, Mass/school shootings, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Pedophilia

graceesford's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Addiction, Child death, Violence, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexism, Slavery, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape

leabhar_love's review

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident

thalianni's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Slavery, War, Suicide, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Violence, and Terminal illness

rain_bellin's review

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Addiction, Murder, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content

neens_m's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

dlsmk's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

Minor: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism

5aru's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

I'll admit I walked into this expecting a fictional story — which is partly why I was so surprised, though pleasantly, at the turn it took. Weaving truth with fiction (and, in so doing, creating a fiction that rings true), the book becomes a poignant reflection on Life, Death, Time, and Love, and their many roles and many faces. It almost feels like a manifesto for the disenfranchised and the lost, one that encourages humankind to remember why we die — or, in other words, why we live —, and thus to understand that we are made to care for one another.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Torture and Violence

Minor: Sexual violence

being_stupid's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

The writing style is what made me read it entiterly. Because the story doesn't seem to go anywhere when u read it. I don't think it does. But through the story a lot of themes are "talked about". Like barely. Just à hint.
And that's what's weird to me, it seems to be a message but you can't figure it out. 
Plus there are some disturbing scenes and I don't know why they're here. Like how was it revenant to the story. 

At some point there's a scene where a black girl takes her tit out at laugh, stick her tongue out too. And for no reason. To see her as the bad twin there were other ways than depicting a black girl in the 1700 as crazy. I mean I get it, kind of, the point she's trying to make. I don't see how this in particular was useful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Murder and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Sexism, Racism, Misogyny, and Islamophobia