Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin, Margot Paronis

12 reviews

erikwmj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Confinement

Moderate: Slavery and Xenophobia

Minor: Murder and Violence

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

I  enjoyed this one until Ged shows up. Then he’s such a patronizing asshat I almost threw the book across the room several times. “Oh, Tenar, you’re free now—as long as you go exactly where I take you and do exactly what I say!” He treats Tenar as much like a treasure as he does the Ring, and it’s super gross.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Confinement

Moderate: Torture, Murder, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Xenophobia, and Sexism

Minor: Child abuse, Racism, and Slavery

Graphic: Darkness

marlamackoul's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

creatuvre's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Slavery

fenny_42's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Even better than the first book (A Wizard of Sarthsea). This gave me big The Locked Tomb vibes. Definitely Ninth House-esque with a child saddled with a huge burden way too young. Lovely story and a really quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

yourbookishbff's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Child abuse, and Trafficking

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, Murder, and Religious bigotry

eauderat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Murder, Confinement, Kidnapping, Child abuse, and Violence

Minor: Xenophobia and Sexism

onalark's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Torture, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Murder, and Animal death

afion's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Slavery, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Xenophobia, Racism, and Drug use

toffishay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

It's interesting for the second book in a series to focus primarily on a character totally unconnected to the main hero, but it was really interesting to hear the perspective of a group separate from the main world and with a warped ideology. I also appreciate having race discussed in a fantasy series in a way that is not theoretical. Ged and many others in the world are specifically brown-skinned and Kargads are white and distrust others in the world based on skin-color and ideology. I also like the journey of Tehar. She has to work against a world that took her from all that she knows and gave her some power, but power that is ulimately empty and built on nothing. But it is also all that she knows and she has to rely on Ged and herself to fight for a different, more open, but a more free life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Murder, Racism, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Death