Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

5 reviews

milliemudd's review

adventurous informative tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Drug use

hellokriti's review

adventurous dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective

4.0

Short and fun!  Jack Reacher vibes, but instead of being a super jacked ex-military dude, the protagonist is a semi-retired forensic accountant who thinks a lot about money and society. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Grief, Torture, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Car accident, War, and Fire/Fire injury

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Alcohol, Cursing, Classism, Gore, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, and Sexual content

quihi's review

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I like this book because I like most of Doctorow's books. If you don't, this will probably not be the one to convert you, though it is perhaps the least dystopian. It's a fun ride through cryptocurrency, security both digital and physical, and money laundering, with some government involvement and discussion of homelessness to round it out.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Murder, Suicide, Rape, Torture, Gun violence, Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

schnaucl's review

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed it.  Not surprisingly, Martin doesn't think much of cryptocurrency except to the extent that it makes his forensic accounting job easier.  I hadn't really thought about the public part of the public key making criminal activity easier to trace.  The forensic accounting part was actually really interesting.

I did have two minor quibbles. 

I think Martin slept with every named female character he spoke to in person except for maybe two.  It wasn't a James Bond situation, where everyone thought he was god's gift, but it was still a bit much.

Second, although I take Doctorow's point about the IRS, it's not that they aren't perfectly aware of some of the ways that the wealthy avoid taxation it's that the last time they seriously tried to go after the very wealthy and get a comprehensive view of their assets and tax them appropriately (2009) the rich lawyered up and lobbied Congress and the IRS realized it was outmatched and hasn't tried it since, something I can't believe Doctorow isn't already aware of.   There's a fantastic ProPublica article about it called "The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well."  The article is highly recommended. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Death

Minor: Sexual violence