Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter

18 reviews

jordanbolker's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved the story in this book, overall! It kept me interested and was full of action the entire time. Though the story was sapphic, there wasn’t a lot of spice. Only the beginning and the end. There could’ve been more. But overall, the story was great. But if you’re looking for a sexy, spicy and sapphic novel, maybe try a different one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Incest, Sexual content, Bullying, Child abuse, Infidelity, Outing, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Gore, and Police brutality

crazybooklady89's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

Wow! Just wow! This story was so disturbingly beautiful! So much love and passion Lee Winter is an absolute genius.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Domestic abuse, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Sexual content, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Trafficking and Pedophilia

ck529's review

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder

madscientistcat's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Murder, Homophobia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Child abuse, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Police brutality

Minor: Animal death

fizzy_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Death, Violence, Cursing, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

fictionallyfinn'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

ezrazoe4's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

I liked how both the main characters were competent in their own right, but I felt like there wasn't enough time given for them to fully explore their dynamic and relationship with each other after the reveal. 

They only meet once after the reveal and then never see each other for a year. Then Requiem comes back, confesses and they both go off on holiday together. The book ends like this. Requiem's change of heart happens mostly off screen, which is... not good. I wish we could have gotten more scenes of them actually being together.

I'm not a big fan of pet names, especially demeaning ones. I suppose it kind of goes from demeaning to affectionate in the end, but it still rubs me the wrong way. 

Maybe I'm just not cut out for the romance genre. :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Misogyny, Lesbophobia, and Kidnapping

Minor: Trafficking

sibbyreads's review

challenging dark tense slow-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? It's complicated

2.75

This book was a challenging read for me. From it's very graphic start to the complicated and uninspiring end it was occasionally a slog. I feel like I should note that I am not a reader of mafia romances in general and this is very much along the same line, and while in the end I really did like it those likes come with a caveat.

To start with, you will not really like anyone in this book. They are all lying to each other. From the jump we meet the assassin who has no redeeming features besides being a brilliant musician and this church mouse of a woman who is to be her next target.  I'm skipping the bit in the very beginning that almost put me off the book all together, I'll cover that in a minute. As we watch these two interact and meet the cast of secondary characters that surround them, there is no demonstration of chemistry beyond their need to constantly poke at the others musical taste. Over and over again we're supposed to believe that the assassin wont complete the job because she's falling in love, but nothing happened to give an indication as such. So we continue to follow them through this whole process hoping for the best, but expecting the mouse to die and the assassin to just move on. But hours later (and I was reading audio, so it was literal hours) nothing had happened and I just wanted to know how it ended. 

But here we get to the crux of the matter. Here are two characters that in their own stories I would have liked quite a bit, revolving around each other in a story that seems.... a little beyond reasonable, and by the end you are a little sweet on them. I really did want the victim to have her happy ending. And as much as I disliked the assassin I did want her to have love too.

I liked it, but I wont reread it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Murder, Rape, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Child abuse

In the first few pages/ minutes, there is a graphic rape that was really weird. This was truly a huge turn off for me for this book.

jdawg1's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Murder, Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail