Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

77 reviews

inkwellimps's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

I feel like the ending should bother me on principle,

Carmilla's vampirism is brought to light by a traveling character who enters the narrative at the end, functionally, in order to resolve the plot.

But, honestly, I didn't really mind it much. I found the whole book pretty enjoyable. 

As far as "lesbian vampires" go-- I hadn't realized the girls were so young, and Carmilla's more romantic feelings make the protagonist uncomfortable (and, in turn, made me a bit uncomfortable, knowing how unwanted attention feels), so be aware of this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment

infjkiki's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Suicide

runefiction's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Racism

bearystarry's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Loved this. Even though I'd heard people talk about this book before, I was not expecting it to be this overtly romantic? Loved the specific vampire lore here as well. I think this will be something I want to reread pretty often.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Racial slurs, Child death, and Racism

Moderate: Sexism, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Suicide, Stalking, Murder, Grief, Misogyny, and Medical content

nokvi's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Only a homophobe could sit and go I'm writing this to explain that lesbianism is bad and then produce homoerotic content in 100 pages. Like Camilla was confessing and wooing this woman, and sometimes you felt her ick towards it (yeah could have had more lesbians)

0.5 star because there's a line where a character is stated to describe a hideous black woman and I'm taking it as racism because look at the time period of this book, mans was probably racist as well

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Murder

Minor: Suicide and Racism

devermismysteris's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Gore

Moderate: Cannibalism and Chronic illness

Minor: Gaslighting, Murder, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Sexual content

mary_stormageddon's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

In my opinion, all classics should be edited by Carmen Maria Machado. I'd enjoy them much more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Murder

danilo_syrtis's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Suicide, Grief, and Misogyny

hexedmaiden's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

4.0

This one is a reread for me and having already read the original book I wanted to see what Carmen Maria Machado would add to the original text. I enjoyed her contributions a lot. It was already very queer and I feel as though Carmen's little edits and anecdotes made it even more abundantly queer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide and Racism

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

starting the Carmilla routine (waking up at 1pm and drinking hot chocolate) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Terminal illness, Death, and Gore

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent