Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

129 reviews

bitesizedbeet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Animal death, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Confinement, Self harm, Murder, Vomit, and Grief

writingcaia's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book gives me hope for authors writing weird new stories which this one is.
On an island there’s Raxter, a girls boarding school, and there’s also the Tox, a disease culling lives or changing the surviving few strange with mutations, the same happening with the fauna and flora of the island for the last eighteen months they think. In Raxter there’re three friends who along with the others surviving girls and female teachers are quarantined and confined to the school grounds unable to explore the rest of the island, only the boat crew allowed to go out to pick up the supplies sent by the navy base close by. 
An opening to the boat crew opens early on in the story and one of the friends, Reese, really wants to get picked out, since she is a native of the island and knows the place, and so is her father who unfortunately disappeared soon after the Tox hit and who she wants to see if he’s still out there, but luck has it it will be one of her friends that gets the chance, Hetty, the one eyed girl, the lead of this tale. However, what she’ll find out there will be more puzzling and disheartening than she could ever have guessed.
Still, they keep on hoping and waiting for a cure, Hetty and Byatt, her beautiful mysterious sister from another mister bff, and even the resigned tough Reese, who stands always slightly apart from the duo. Until the day Byatt goes missing after the usually final flare of the disease comes to her body. Desperate Hetty will do anything to have her friend back and she is able to convince Reese too, easier than she had thought. After all are they friends too, right?
This is a book about fighting to survive, fighting to fit in, fighting to be, but will they make it? Can they overcome their disease, can they survive it, can they ever understand what is happening to them?
This is not an easy story, but I truly liked the diverse cast, albeit 99% female (girl power) and their very different personalities and struggles, and as we follow the three friends we find that not everything is as it seems and that they’re not black or white. Also, the final explanation for it all is so good, but this is not your typical book as I’ve said before, it is YA but really gory and gritty, with a weird plot and setting.
I liked it but it was also maybe a bit too weird for me, and there were things I’d have like to have been dug deeper, still kudos for the originality of plot and the immersive and emotional writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Gun violence

Starvation, Stitching, Near death experience

r__a's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Torture, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, and Murder

naomidanae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Confinement, Medical content, Chronic illness, Gore, and Blood

queergoth_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

From the synopsis I was quite excited for this but honestly I was just bored reading it. It felt like it relied very heavily on grossing the reader out rather than anything else. 

I also felt the characters were very self centred. Now given their circumstances I could understand that but it felt like it was their only trait. They just all felt so flat. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Suicide, Death of parent, Body horror, Death, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Toxic friendship, and Violence

mandarins's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Blood, Gore, Murder, Death, and Medical content

Minor: Vomit

miabellawymer's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

I got really roped into this book while reading it. I couldn't put it down, and it kept me up at night.

The ending was very anticlimactic, and the desciptions are quite graphic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Very detailed desciptions of injuries.

giuliaprim's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

A really good book that deserves 4 stars. I loved the bond between the three protagonists and I resonated a lot with Byatt, her povs were my favorites. I do not understand the negative reviews, the criticisms that have been made are two: The ending that is not an ending, and that nothing is explained. First of all I think this is an example of an open ending, very successful in my opinion, regarding the explanation of what happened and why, well, there are many clues and the readers have to get there by themselves.
If a second book were made I would be really happy, but I am satisfied even so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Medical content

kiahsbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Death, Confinement, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit

morganwiard's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I don’t think I’ve ever ripped through a book faster in my life. I’m still reeling. I have so much to process, but I’m also really glad a read this. Such a raw story about strong girls.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder