Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Torstain murhakerho by Richard Osman

66 reviews

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

bookishbutch's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Suicide, Murder, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content and Fatphobia

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

creativeworld's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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

4.0

Loved it! Easy to read and very humorous! The ending was a little confusing due to many characters but as a first novel I really appreciate the way it was wrapped up so unpredictably. Highly Reccomend! Looking forward to reading The Man Who Died Twice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Terminal illness, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Dementia

knerys's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad 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: Death, Dementia, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Medical content

clocke3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Medical content, and Grief

beth_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Child death, and Pregnancy

mention of dead significant others

novi's review against another edition

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

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

kimi72714's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

I really loved this book! The characters were so compassionately written and so real! I laughed out loud, I gasped, my heart broke, and I told anyone who would listen what was happening in the plot at that point. 

I don't often like mystery books, but I enjoyed this one. It was light hearted enough for me, a raging empath, to read before bed. And the women were actually three dimensional characters: a welcome change in crime fiction.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants an upbeat mystery, or someone who wants to dive back into reading again. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Dementia, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Gun violence, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

Most of the content warnings are implied because it is a crime fiction novel, and most are handled well within the context. These themes are lighter than in many other crime novels, but they are still present.