Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

9 reviews

luisatkinson's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

adaeze's review

dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Violence, Self harm, Racism, and Murder

another_dahlia's review against another edition

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Racism, Police brutality, Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs, Violence, Child abuse, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

beautifulminutiae's review

dark reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

novelideea's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Sexual content

savannahtrice's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

Flannery O'Connor is such a talented writer who crafted a lovely meditation on how religion affects different people's lives. I think I would have understood the metaphor of this more, and enjoyed it more, if I had ever read the bible. This was a really great book, but I felt like the incessant use of the n-word was overdoing it a bit on O'Connor and her characters part. Overall, I liked the book, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone on account of how niche it is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Murder, and Racism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

petrichorandcoffee's review

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

It's hard to rate this book. It is very dark, often intense, and none of the characters are likeable. It is well-written, compelling, truly original, and unpredictable. The book made me uncomfortable, yet I had trouble putting it down and when I read it I felt completely absorbed even though I did not like any of the characters. I feel like there is a lot of meaning and eeriness, faith and cynicism shimmering above the story the whole time. It feels like a Bible story but also it feels completely blasphemous. The ending is not what I expected and I'm not sure what to make of it yet - I will have to let it simmer. Also it uses the n-word (not as a main point of the story but it is still used) and there are racist remarks made by a character and I'm not sure if the reader is intended to see that as the character being a bad person or if the reader is expected to be okay with the remarks. I think (and hope) the former. I appreciate what O'Connor does with shifting perspectives/POVs throughout (but in a more subtle way than explicitly shifting a 1st person narrative POV as it is always 3rd person). I would recommend this book. It is very strange, and unpleasant, and made me think. It feels like it has something powerful inside of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Self harm

vinnski's review against another edition

dark funny reflective 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

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Murder

syntheticdinos's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Self harm

Minor: Death of parent