Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Torstain murhakerho by Richard Osman

45 reviews

massivepizzacrust's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Gun violence

Minor: Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Drug use

ekmook's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Grief, Murder, and Suicide

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Murder

therobinjoyce's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

1.25

 Again, I felt like one of the last people on bookstagram to read this book and after all the hype I’d heard about it, I was expecting amazing things from The Thursday Murder Club. Unfortunately, I think the hype for this novel was very unprecedented and encouraged mainly by the fame of Richard Osman.

The book was initially hard to get into with the ever-shifting POVs and slow pacing but after a while, I could see a pattern emerging and it was a little simpler to follow each different narrator. But even then, the story was very long-winded and dragged on far too long.

Each chapter was rather short, which suited me well, but it would take roughly 10 pages of narration to finally read one sentence of information that was pertinent to the plot.

The characters were an unlikely and unusual bunch and could have been written so well but, alas, they all felt rather vanilla and boring to me and I could not connect with any of them. Donna was the only one I didn’t mind reading about but she had far too little “screen time” to keep me interested in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, and Xenophobia

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

jesssparkles's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Suicide, and Chronic illness

odrib's review against another edition

funny mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Murder, Suicide, Terminal illness, Dementia, Chronic illness, and Child death

Moderate: Sexism, Police brutality, and Misogyny

awpatton's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Murder, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, and Violence

aaryan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious relaxing tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, and Chronic illness

creepycrawlybookworm's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

This was a book that i didn't expect to like as much as i did, despite some of it being predictable, I'm so pleased I read it.
I grew to care for the characters, and although i struggled with the pacing of the book in a couple of places, the humour and character's stories more than made up for it, and i felt there was a great balance to most of the writing.
It was also refreshing to read about older people for a change, and the humourous parts were great, so I'll definitely be picking up the next book!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Murder and Chronic illness