Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

11 reviews

izypup's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, Suicide, Sexism, Murder, Alcohol, Misogyny, and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Child death, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

wickedgrumpy's review

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

The characters were lovely.  I imagine I will pick up the next in the series at some point because I thought it was a charming read, even though it wasn't my usual cup of tea.

Also, I know it's a murder mystery but I wasn't expecting so much casual death.  Was a bit grim at times.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Bullying, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Infidelity, Murder, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Trafficking, Alcohol, Animal death, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Sexism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Suicide

cooliuscaesar451's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

It starts off slowly but the characters suck you in ❤️ I found myself verklempt time and time again at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug use, Grief, Child death, Mental illness, Blood, Classism, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Suicide, Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Ableism, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Racism, War, Cancer, Misogyny, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy, Animal death, Addiction, Homophobia, and Gun violence

jojo50's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Death, Murder, Death of parent, and Dementia

thequiltyreader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Dementia, Gun violence, Suicide, Murder, Death of parent, Death, and Alcohol

mari_books's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

On its face the book is a fast paced almost beach read style mystery with a lovely and curious team of elderly detectives. There are lots of elements of mystery and emotional life/ death/ love/ family sentimental moments. Solidly 4 stars. Dinging one star for how anticlimactic the ending was and I think in general the author introduced too many characters it was kind of unneeded and hard to keep track of 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Death of parent, Suicide, Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death, and Child death

jfield351's review

emotional lighthearted mysterious relaxing slow-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

This was a good book. I loved how easy to read it was and how short the chapters were. The big twist didn’t shock me too much, it didn’t really have too much of an effect on me. I did think some of the characters actions were unbelievable but I guess that happens in mystery novels

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Dementia, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and Grief

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

rieviolet's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

The book is divided into very short chapters, so that the reading experience feels very fast and easy.
Each chapter switches between quite a lot of point of views (to be honest, maybe too many). This certainly helps to keep the narration interesting and varied but, at the same time, it does not allow to explore the characters in depth and it can become a bit confusing to keep track of everyone and every storyline.

I think that the book relies a bit too much on the characters' "quirky" traits and, even though this makes the narration funny enough, it can come across as somehow overdone. 

I'm not really sure about the mystery part of the story, it did make sense
(sort of) but at the same time it felt a bit convoluted, maybe too much twists and turns towards the very end of the story?

All in all, a nice and quick read but I don't think I'll continue with the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide

Moderate: Dementia, Trafficking, Death, Terminal illness, Sexism, Violence, Fatphobia, Blood, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Police brutality, Xenophobia, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

lkbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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: Dementia, Murder, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Chronic illness, Death, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Fatphobia, Sexism, Body shaming, Misogyny, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage and Animal death

novi's review

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

This is more of a murder mystery than a thriller. It took a slow cozy approach, although at times can be a bit tense, but overall it's not action-packed or suspenseful. 

I think I'll like it more if the whole book is narrated from Joyce's point of view because her chapters are always has funny bits and I looove old people's first person's narration. Joyce is the only first person pov here, though. The other chapters was narrated through third person point of view and I didn't really enjoy it. 

I think the mystery is all over the place. There are twists here and there but it wasn't satisfying to me and it made me lose interest/care about the mystery.

I like my mystery to be wrapped nicely in one. Like, clues or the occurrences might seem scattered or didn't have connection with one another but in the end they're all connected. But here, they're not connected at all. In fact there were really separated from one another. You could say they're red herrings, but usually we never knew what these red herrings were actually about. But here, the book gave us closures for these red herrings. And it quite upsets me. The author might think that it's clever, because those closures are the twists. But I was actually hoping for something more and ended up with something that came out of Chicken Soup for the Soul or something (i've never read those though so i don't know). And one of those red herrings (I'm talking about Bernard's plotlines here) we were not even let to be invested in it yet, and then suddenly the closure came and the resolution of it just made me like..... "Um... Okay??". All I'm saying is, it's all so convoluted for nothing.

And Chris gotta stop being relatable. Like seriously. Stop. Ittttt. I don't want to relate to an old police officer but this book keeps attacking me for no reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Fatphobia, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

One side character often feels guilty about what he eats and thinks of the calories that the food contains