Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

39 reviews

k_fry's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Blood, Death, Confinement, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

Moderate: Miscarriage

doahdancer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

I don't understand why the romance subplot between the MMC and the FMC existed. It seemed more wholesome as a mentor/mentee relationship, considering that neither seemed all that attracted to each other overall. 

I love romance books and read this on a recommendation for a fairy tale style fantasy with romance, but I would say the lack of focus on the romance left it underdeveloped and made the age gap feel shallow and about relieving stress through a one night stand rather than them forming a connection that transcended their ages.

I also didn't love the ending, it felt a little cliche and the story was very Grimm tales up until that point, I wish the ending was darker and more twisted.

Overall, the fairy tale aspect of this book was well done and I love the Scholomance series by this author, so definitely try it anyway if you like romantic relationships being downplayed. It's a well written book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, and Violence

laynerinke's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

strixy16's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

I don’t think this book is bad, I just don’t think it was for me! 

The magic system was a little wishy-washy to me and I felt like I was just along for the ride as things progressed. There wasn’t a ton of motivations for moving from place to place and I really never figured out what was going to happen next, but not in a good way.

The second half also felt like it dragged to me. The ending redeemed it a bit though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

dcdc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Rape

asahome's review against another edition

4.25

A woman befriends the woman who will be taken by the wizard, only he takes her instead. She's mad at him for taking her and also mad at him for not taking the other girl.

I like how they handled the

conflict resolution

at the end. It was a very realistic approach to what happens in my opinion

after war if you want their to be peace and not just a pause in the physical conflict

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, War, Blood, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Kidnapping, Torture, Confinement, Gore, and Sexual content

Minor: Medical trauma, Rape, Genocide, Death of parent, Grief, and Pregnancy

Possession: the Woods possesses people, the book calls it corrupting them

silversparkles50's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This was hard to get through for me.  I didn't like the fact the main character was instantly the best at magic, I hated the verbally abusive love interest, there was a sex scene that came out of nowhere that seemed out of place,  the story was too complicated.  I liked the premise and some of the writing,  but it was way too long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Blood, Death, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, and Violence

freyagame's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.5

I read this when I was 15 and thought it was aggressively mid, came back to it and am a little horrified that my opinion hasn't changed. 

Overall nice world building and scenery but never really decides if it wants to be high fantasy and I think it really suffers as a result. It is clear that Novik is a very talented writer, the prose is really great but is let down by plot structure IMO. Not helped by the MC being incredibly annoying in the first half of the book with some weird development leading into conclusion.

We are never told why she is able to do magic that no other wizard can, there is seemingly no reason.

Most of the plot is driven by what's happening with her best friend who we are told is very amazing but who is actually very boring and sleeps mostly until she needs to swing a sword around. Their relationship is really bizarre: a few moments early on that lead to some great conflict but these threads are all dropped.

However, the final chapter was incredibly sweet and did bring it back a lot for me, I'm a sucker for a village boogie.

Romance and magic system a bit nonsensical and underdeveloped (interesting age gap!) I really do think you could squeeze the entire romance plot into the content of about 5 pages, it never really goes anywhere: he's written entirely out of the second act and receives next to no development as a result. A travesty honestly. Also an instance of sexual assault that is kind of brushed under the rug once the plot get rolling, dissapointing. Random very slow 100 pages or so in the middle that get very political, a bit of a standstill that doesn't gel fabulously with the first section of the book. Generally good vibes if you don't think too hard about anything and just roll with it. If looking for fun fairytale is a great pick but a bit of a shallow fantasy otherwise :// 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, War, Confinement, Murder, and Sexual assault

margaret_k30's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual content and Kidnapping

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, War, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Confinement, Child death, Body horror, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Rape, and Murder