Reviews tagging 'Murder'

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135 reviews

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

very exciting! the whirling pov switches felt like the same maze the characters were in, and made for a very hard to put down book. I’d find myself saying “I’ll stop after this chapter” then realizing I’d blown past it by several pages. 

this did not have the dreaded Short Book Syndrome; I knew just enough about the chars to make them feel real, but not enough to bog down the plot. pacing was quite good! ending was abrupt, but not necessarily in a bad way. it felt like the ending of Eli: lots of potential, but also a fair ending to the plot 

I really like when authors take whiteness and privilege and incarnate it into tangible forms of creatures, magic, murder. something so silent yet pervasive bubbling up into visible monstrosity … scrumptious!

I didn’t come into this book expecting much, and as such I am pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Racism

butlere's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Child death and Animal death

remy_licked_my_book's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

I felt like I was missing a story. There seemed to be a lot of back story to each character that kept being sort of explored but not. That's the reason it's not a 5 star for me. Outside of that I liked the flaws of each character. I do think this story couldn't have been fleshed out deeper and made longer but it was a neat little thriller with great twists until the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Body horror

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Child death, Murder, Death, Death of parent, and Confinement

Minor: Religious bigotry, Child abuse, and Sexual content

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cursing, Blood, Gore, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Confinement, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and War

shysheepys's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Murder

traa's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Classism, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Gore, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Suicide, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Medical content, Infidelity, Medical trauma, War, Self harm, and Racial slurs

gellyreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Overall, this book is really fun. It can get pretty preachy at times, but it doesn’t wear on me in a bad way. It’s just noticeable. I got a bit frustrated with the

monster concept. I loved the idea of invisible monsters and that it represents privilege and trickle-down economics, and how this country and the mostly white elite has prodigies off of slavery, bipoc, queer, disabled, and poor bodies. I just wish the description of the monster once it wasn’t invisible was cooler.

The amount of characters and the POV can be a bit jarring at first, but this grew on me. I also think the first half is weaker and a bit too slow for me compared to the second half. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Ableism, Misogyny, Grief, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: War and Rape

nnylelocin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Gore, Murder, and Physical abuse

sourdoirevalley's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide

nithya_natalya's review against another edition

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

4.0

Queer horror that centers on one of the things that I love about horror - how hopeful it can be, even in the bleakest of situations. It's a genre that is such a testament to how hard people are willing to fight just to live. Also, this really reminded me of Severance by Ling Ma. Very different style, but a similar critique of late stage capitalism, and the idea that younger gens must suffer, but also be grateful for the horrors created by greed. If you are fed up with your capitalist overlords, this is definitely a cathartic read. 

My only struggle with this was that the author writes in third person omniscient and switches perspectives without chapter or page breaks. So on the same page, you'll get the thoughts and feelings of multiple different characters. Especially when first being introduced to the characters, being in one person's thoughts and then suddenly another's was a bit of whiplash and just generally confusing because there were so many characters to get to know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, and Confinement

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Grief, Gore, Ableism, Racism, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail