Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

21 reviews

ghoulomatic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

This book was beautiful and moving. Each sentence was meticulously crafted... Each word was purposeful. The love and care the author, Randy Ribay, put into the book practically floods out of the pages. This is a beautifully crafted story about so many things. It's certainly a book worth reading again and again and again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Drug abuse, and Police brutality

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

kshertz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Excellent book. This narrator finds himself by going to the Philippines and finding out the truth about how his 17 year old cousin, that he used to be close with, died. It’s a coming of age with commentary on our biases, our differences, our similarities, our assumptions, and what really the truth can be. It started slow for me but became very intense and reflective toward the end. It’s a serious and sad coming of age story, but one we should probably all read to reflect on how we too can do and be better so 17 year olds are not suing the way his cousin did.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Abandonment, Murder, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Drug use, Addiction, Death, Racism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Police brutality

manawuari's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Murder, Mental illness, Police brutality, Trafficking, Animal death, Death, and Violence

Minor: Rape and Animal death

gellyreads's review

emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Colonisation, Drug use, Murder, Police brutality, Drug abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence, Kidnapping, and Trafficking

kalmia31's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Classism, Genocide, Grief, Colonisation, and Death

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Violence, Homophobia, Racism, Murder, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Misogyny

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

itssthestars's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

im known around my friends for being the relentless optimist, and it shines most when contrasted against subject matter like this. 
i dont often get to read about my actual culture as a fil-am kid, so this was an amazingly intimate read for me. this book represents a real filipino family, and i am so glad to be a witness of it. the mood and atmosphere was captured beautifully, and ill definitely be looking into ribay's other books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Addiction, Murder, Police brutality, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Trafficking, and Rape

bookishbaddie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Classism, Violence, War, Murder, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual violence, Trafficking, Rape, and Sexual assault

mysterymom40's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, Police brutality, Drug abuse, Trafficking, Grief, Gaslighting, Drug use, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

carterhoward's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

Brilliant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Murder, and Drug abuse

library_dreamer's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Police brutality, Gun violence, Violence, Racism, Drug abuse, and Murder