Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

23 reviews

theresugar's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

It was interesting to learn more about the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home, and to hear all of the little sneaky references to Welcome to Night Vale and see a bit of the Nightvale before Cecil and Carlos. However, I felt that the story sort of dragged in spots and by the end I was really ready for it to be over, I feel like it could have been wrapped up a bit sooner. All in all, quite intriguing and I learned some new and interesting lore for WTNV

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse

applecinnamoncheerios's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

spicewitch's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

fox_at_the_circus's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

I enjoyed this book immensly! I always love a good heist and found family plot and this book really gives us great characters with great relationships. I loved the character development of the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home and seeing how she became the person we know and love from WTNV. She has a really interesting character arc and seeing her revenge story unfold is very interesting and tragic. 
This book is full of mystery and plot twists and intrigue and it is so fun to theorise while reading. And sometimes I saw things coming, but never the whole twist, never all of it; great foreshadowing with great pay-off!
It also has some amazing prose in it, in the earlier flashbacks especially with the "what X smells like" paragraphs, those really hit hard for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Body horror, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, and Car accident

thechocolatefinger's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

I preferred the parts about modern day with Craig but most of it was her backstory and all about her being a pirate

The ending was good and an interesting story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Death of parent

toopunkrockforshul's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely loved this book! The first two novels where good and very night vale vibes but this one was just absolutely stellar, both in the plot and the execution. The prose was absolutely beautiful, and there were so many good motifs and foreshadowing and pay offs. Also Mara Wilson's narration is fantastic. Wonderful book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, and Gore

Moderate: Cancer

ashy_slashy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism and Murder

littleredwinter's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: War

onemamareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Read my full review here: https://onemamassummer.weebly.com/book-reviews/the-faceless-old-woman-who-secretly-lives-in-your-home-a-welcome-to-night-vale-novel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Torture, Gore, and Death of parent

hexe_19's review

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Stalking, Gaslighting, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Antisemitism, and Cancer

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Child death