Reviews with content warning for Murder - Hannibal Rising

it's true that i started reading the Hannibal books because of the NBC tv show adaptation and i am definitely biased as i formed a deep attachment to mikkelsen's hannibal 😞🎀 (i'm just a girl guys) but i will forever be a hannibal rising defender, because i honestly think that this is a good understanding of Hannibal as a person and not just as a serial cannibalistic killer.
While i know this is probably the most hated book from the series and is hated by the author himself, i seriously enjoyed it.
yes, the writing is literally telling, not showing which is usually such a turn off, but honestly — probably because of how fixated i am — it didn't bother me one bit here.
I absolutely love Mischa and Hannibal's relationship to her. I am such a sucker for sibling tropes AND it's even more heartbreaking when it's angsty/no good ending in sight.
i feel so damaged of how he lost everyone, especially Mischa.
His relationship with Lady Murasaki is weird.
anyway, the hannibal core scenes are great and not disgustingly gory, which i appreciate ~~(and it makes sense, psychologically)~~.

In conclusion, hannibal is just a teenage girl and i could make a three hour long video explaining every single detail, parallel, psychology and every niche thing in this book. muck. 🎀🎀.

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_copperluna_'s review against another edition

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dark mysterious 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

4.5

I really enjoyed the book, I would say that this is not for everyone especially Thomas Harris’s writing style.
I couldn’t put this book down, I was reading and listening to the audiobook so I finished it in days because I just couldn’t put it down.

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emsmeat's review

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dark fast-paced

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

3.0

Not as good as the sequels but a much more palatable read. Ending was somehow boring and we never get Hannibal in his golden years of being a psychologist serial killer and I'm salty about that. 3.0

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plantkitt3n's review against another edition

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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? Yes

4.75

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hocuscrocus's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

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

3.0

On the positive side, this book contains plenty of the beautiful prose I love in Thomas Harris' novels.

On the negative side, it's a slow crawl to find the plot, and it's not very satisfying when it finally shows up.

On the extra subjective side, I found it very slow going in general. It felt like Hannibal was 13 forever and then he was 18 forever. I get that these were the parts of his life that were most significant but I still found it very slow.

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