Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Misery by Stephen King

210 reviews

phantomsparrow's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Violence, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Torture

Moderate: Car accident, Addiction, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Minor: Vomit

_marycappiello3'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Self harm, Violence, Child death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Gaslighting, Torture, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

captaincrabs52's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Some of the parts of the book got pretty boring but overall I really really enjoyed this book and everyone should read it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Body horror, Gore, Car accident, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Blood, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

humanhalfofachilleus's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

2.75

as with most Stephen King, it could have ended 50 pages earlier and the "creepiness" relies heavily on "gross-out" rather than true terror or horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Murder, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Car accident, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Body horror, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Torture, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Racism

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

etherealsuju's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, and Torture

dee97's review

tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Animal death, and Murder

sannesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.25

Good thriller. Liked the ending. Didn't like the book within the book and skipped most of it. I had a hard time to keep up my reading pace and motivation since you are pulled out of the original story. Others might not be bothered by this but that is part of being it a lower rating.
The audiobook was amazingly read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Drug abuse, Gore, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

asimpson7's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This book was grim. However it was also really good. I didn’t rate it too highly though as it took me so long to get through it. Also this isn’t really the type of book I’d usually go for, it was very disturbing but also fascinating at how a whole book can be written in one place with only 2 main characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Bullying, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Animal death, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Vomit

sablou53's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Fatphobia, Self harm, and Racial slurs

emilybryant's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Annie Wilkes will be in my nightmares forever. My first Stephen King and first horror which is definitely going to be a more frequent genre for me. Couldn't put this book down it was addictively disturbing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, and Torture