Reviews tagging 'Murder'

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

44 reviews

portraitofabibliophile's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

kirstym25's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Murder

theimposter's review

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Classism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Torture

caffeinated_gills's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Misogyny

Moderate: Blood, Child death, War, and Violence

Minor: Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, and Mental illness

cholliworth's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Love, love, love this book. Haven't been so desperate to finish a book in years, and can't wait to read the second in the trilogy. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Kidnapping, Murder, and Death of parent

jaynovara's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Confinement

Minor: Kidnapping, Medical content, and Pregnancy

kyliereads341's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy and Panic attacks/disorders

piperclover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

I'm so torn on this. On one hand I love the mystery around the manuscript, the magic system, the convent, and all of that stuff. On the other hand I despise Matthew as a love interest. He could be the villain, he could be the best friend, he could just be a random vampire that they dragged in to all this, but I cannot stand him as a love interest.  His character has some flashes of being interesting but by-and-large hes just a controlling, obnoxious Edward Cullen era vampire love interest. 

And that's my biggest gripe with this book that it feels like a mix of National Treasure and the bad parts of Twilight.  You can clearly see that this was written post twilight boom. I just hate this stupid relationship so much but I'm so interested in the actual plot that I might get sucked in and try the next book. 

 It was a bit long and a bit slow so it definitely could have cut about a 100 pages out but I did really enjoy the fact that even though it's all about magic, they did address the legalities of the legalities of their plan which was a fun thing to add. And also it raised a very good question about whether or not vampires can tell when somebody is menstruating and if they like it or not. 

I initially gave this a 3 but its actually a 2.5. I cant think about it without thinking about how much I hated the "romance" so much it makes me mad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Torture

Moderate: Stalking

Harassment

baearles's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Murder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, War, and Pregnancy

bedtimesandbooks's review

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Torture, Murder, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Stalking

Moderate: Mental illness, Child death, and Pregnancy