Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

21 reviews

meggwennyth's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Child death and Sexual assault

natahoochie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Coulda been gayer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Chronic illness, Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

burnourhistory's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Xenophobia, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction and Drug use

klbreyfogle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was a wonderful read! Pretty dark, at times (both content-wise and thematically) but it was fun to read a queer woman in STEM Frankenstein spin-off and I appreciated the writing style. Lots of of-the-time misogyny and homophobia that can be rough, but I liked the ending (a happy ending imo) and

personally choose to believe that the monster made its way back to Scotland and lives on as the Loch Ness Monster

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Death, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Blood, Death of parent, and Classism

kenley11's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Racism

milesjmoran's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

sproutedpages's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Chronic illness representation: 

• Maise: migraines, asthma and lung issues, heart issues, history of childhood illness. 
• Mr. Jamsetjee: tremors (likely Parkinson's) referred to as “shaking palsy”.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug use, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

Discussion of phrenology (challenged) and racism in science, description of animal corpses and their decomposition (not overly graphic), description of surgical procedures on animal corpses, use of laudanum to treat chronic migraines, infant death/stillbirth

n0elle's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I have mixed feelings about this one. For one, I absolutely love classic retellings, especially if they’re sapphic and this one was a very interesting take on the original story of Frankenstein. 
Now, while I do know the author tried hard to make it appear historically correct, I found it absolutely exhausting to read hundreds of pages of men dictating the protagonist’s life, telling her what she can and can’t do, how she should behave, what (little) she’s worth. 
I’m all for women in STEM, driven by ambition and scientific ideas that lead through breakthroughs. BUT if  her ideas and success are always overshadowed by a man or even taken by a man, while she just sits idly by.. that’s infuriating, historically correct but still infuriating. And while the main character did get mad about these things, she always stayed quiet. In the rare moments she didn’t, she was belittled and reprimanded so much, I felt the shame of being a woman bleed through the pages. 
Maybe the writing was just too good and too real and it made me feel so many emotions, some of which I could have gone without. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lily_marigold's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Violence and Alcohol

renettereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

Set in the 1850s, when women have no place in the sciences, we find Mary– Victor Frankenstein’s great niece – eager to prove her worth in the palaeontological field. With her husband in ill repute by the time she stumbled upon her great uncle’s notes, Mary and Henry set about recreating the process by challenging a fellow scientist’s anatomical research.

Though this book is definitely slower-paced than what I usually enjoy, I was drawn in by the promise of seeing this great aquatic beast (is it Nessie?) come to life. But actually more enjoyable than watching Mary work was witnessing her growth. 

This novel definitely takes on feminist issues, and even Mary’s internal battles stem from how women are perceived. I loved seeing her fight back against perceptions and seeing her come into her own.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Gore and Murder