Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

121 reviews

heypretty52's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, and Pregnancy

The grieving of an description of child death is explicit. The miscarriage by another character isn't explicit and is only briefly mentioned.

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Really wanted to hate this book. The women are awful, and I hate when women mistrust each other and go out of there ways to treat each other down. The patriarchy makes it hard enough to live, and we should be building a better world for other women together, so it was really easy to hate these “best friends,” but I have to about the multilayered storied approach worked and was clever enough for me to keep reading, and I really dislike myself at this moment for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

d0505's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Infidelity, and Murder

elzibub's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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: Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Chronic illness, and Abandonment

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicide, Abortion, and Death of parent

daniellelouise's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This is a weird one for me to rate! I have very mixed feelings about the ending but on the whole I enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

I really enjoyed this storytelling, and I was definitely kept guessing quite a few times during the story. I think the complicated friendship relationship was really interesting, and the kind of "mixed media" style kept the reader really paying attention.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief

jamie_rich's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

jkar7's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

This book really said "Oh you want toxic? Well strap on your hazmat suit!"
I don't think I really liked a single character in this book, but I loved to hate them. Emily and Mari were tolerable, but not sure why Emily didn't also

"let" Chess drown too.

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A nice easy read, would be a great beach read! Maybe don't read it if you're planning a trip to a remote Italian town and staying in an old villa though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Chronic illness, Violence, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

nykolereads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Chronic illness, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

hannah_and_her_stories's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Miscarriage, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy