Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

503 reviews

froggylit's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder

eisenbuns's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Violence, Xenophobia, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder

roseinstarlight's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit

nicolewhopickedthisbook's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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TW: Animal death, suicide, gun violence, death, racism, hunting (graphic details)

Holy moly, this book had my mind reeling!! The writing was so spooky, so atmospheric. Don’t read this book at night 🤣 my dog scared the daylights out of me when I saw light reflecting off his eyes when he was standing next to the bed 🤣 

I think this would make a great horror film 

Waywardathon: Bug (Book by an Indigenous Author), Scarecrow (Book that gives you creepy feels)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Murder

pathfinder's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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I liked many parts but after all the

women murdering, one after another

just became a little too much for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

janefair's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Murder

maryellen's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use

meganelise's review against another edition

4.5

dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder

marrireadsandrambles's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really enjoyed the writing so I will be picking up more of Stephen Graham Jones’s work in the future but there were just some details about this book that didn’t work for me. First, and probably the most petty, is there is soooo much talk about basketball in this book. A little too much for my taste. Second, some of the coincidences are a little too neat for me. Lastly, the third and final part of the book loses a little momentum for me and kinda feels like it’s dragging. We readers already know what’s going on from events in part two so a lot of part three feels like a recap as the other characters are filled in on events. Overall, pretty solid. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Racism

thetruthatallhazards's review against another edition

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Good horror but the gore got to me and I couldn’t finish.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder