Reviews tagging 'Murder'

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

34 reviews

tarajoy90's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder

silverthorn's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny informative sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Rape

ephalent's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Death of parent

tmickey's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

frantically's review against another edition

2.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Classics get way too much leeway for their length because their classics. Dickens shut up challenge.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, War

Minor: Mental illness

rossiell's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Mental illness, Slavery, Violence

Minor: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

serena_hien's review against another edition

3.0

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, Classism

Minor: Death of parent

wandering_recorder's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative 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: Yes

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This novels reputation is well earned. It has a compelling story that takes you along the lives of these famous characters while giving a unique insight into the events of the French Revolution. The only complaint I have is that the language can be hard to follow at times due to its archaic nature, but this overall was not too big of an obstacle to overcome. My favorite aspect of this text, besides its occasional perception into human nature, is how Dickens ties in various aspects into the story over and over again, making things come full circle in surprising ways. Overall, I loved revisiting this old friend and would recommend it for others to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Rape

quills4days's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent, Alcohol

hcdelamusique's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Exquisite. I'm bowled over by my first Dickens. <Spoiler> I do wish that I had read it faster though, as towards the end of the book a great deal from the beginning is resolved. It really moved me and upset me, especially the mass atrocities of the Terror. </Spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Violence, Murder