Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Threadneedle by Cari Thomas

18 reviews

teajunki's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Violence, and Sexual harassment

debonthebackstreet's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

An enjoyable, fast-paced read, especially at the end. The descriptions of magic, friendship and sisterhood felt alive and leapt of the page. Part coming of age novel - a young girl finding freedom and falling in love for the first time in her life despite years of abuse - part magical realism, part mystery. There were lots of twists and turns that made me want to carry on reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, and Blood

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.75

This was such a wild ride of a book and completely unpredictable. The detail put into this world was astounding from the binders, the eye symbol, the details behind all the various magic languages and the family drama. 

The mystery behind Anna’s magic was so intriguing , and I honestly saw nothing coming , from the family curse to Effie being a king list twin and Attis not being what he seems. 

From revenge, to love/lust to betrayal this book was filled with chaos and although it was lengthy it was such a worthwhile read. I’ve never read a fantasy with such detailed magic systems, but despite their complexity it was enjoyable and not hard to follow. 

The binders book extracts at the start of each chapter really added to the mystery behind their grove and was a creative edge which aided the world building. Overall, I loved this book and cannot wait for the sequel to find out where this curse takes Anna, effie and trying to protect the secret of witches in the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Death, and Murder

emberise's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Death of parent, Fatphobia, and Murder

whirl's review

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Fatphobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Murder

silversparkles50's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Torture, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Blood, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Confinement

foreverbookwandering's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

This was way darker than I thought it would be and definitely needed trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Death

meagangrace's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Blood, Emotional abuse, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Bullying, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

Minor: Kidnapping and Pregnancy

gondorgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Child abuse, Death of parent, Torture, Body shaming, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

readingelli's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Murder

Loss of free will, mind control through magic, poison