Reviews - The Death I Gave Him

658 reviews for:

The Death I Gave Him

Em X. Liu

3.54 AVERAGE

rebeccomberga's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious reflective 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

Content Warnings

mollymveh's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bunnyreads33's review

4.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A fast-paced adventure where the outcome could have gone either way, I was not prepared for the ending. The writing style of mixed-media storytelling was well done and kept me guessing on the next actions the characters would take. Even the intense and confusing relationships of the main characters were intriguing, it was hard to look away from the action.

Content Warnings

badcrc's review against another edition

2.0

No me ha gustado, aunque la premisa me parecía interesante (un whodunit en un laboratorio científico) no me ha gustado com se ha trasladado. Me parecido caótico el baile de personajes, que tampoco había muchos pero:

- unos capítulos eran extractos de un supuesto libro que ocurren después de los eventos por una de las protagonistas.
- otros eran logs del sistema de vigilancia.
- los del protoagonista que a veces era desde su punto de vista y otros no.

Luego hay un par de veces que algún personaje está muy cabreado y que va a matar a alguien y es "pero como pensabas que te iba a matar jaja", eso sumado a que a la mitad del libro ya sabes quien es el asesino, su cómplice y sus motivaciones...

Creo que algo más de desarrollo y homogeneizar los POV (que ojo, me parece bien lo de usar distintos medios, siempre y cuando estén alineados) le hubiese venido mejor.

thebookishmutant's review

2.0

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

cryingwhileimreading's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

For something that should be right up my alley and that kept my attention pretty well, I'm a bit disappointed at how flat and lifeless this was. Each character was a caricature of their counterpart in Hamlet, and I didn't end up carring about any of them. Overall, some great ideas, but the execution really struggled.