Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Yo que nunca supe de los hombres by Jacqueline Harpman

40 reviews

hollydrinkscoffee's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

A really thought provoking book. I have found myself thinking about the main character and their plight often. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Grief, Suicide, Death, and Confinement

Minor: Murder

erynelle's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

3.75

-reading this was slow going. Something about it made it hard to get through despite it not using difficult vocabulary. Felt like I read it for longer than I did. 
+the afterword by Mackintosh improved my opinion of the book
+ I do like that there isn’t any needless suffering in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Grief, and Murder

aaron444's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-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

3.5

obviously profound and important but i can't say i wasn't bored

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Cancer, Death, Misogyny, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Murder, and Medical content

gabbynasty's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Cancer, Body horror, Alcohol, Grief, Kidnapping, Suicide, Blood, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Murder, Infertility, Suicide attempt, and Violence

alexandriareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Suicide

flashandoutbreak's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Blood, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Murder

rionstorm's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

A really interesting (and bleak) exploration of how we make sense and meaning of ourselves and our role as a Person, and how much of that is situational. The narrator's musings on how time only has meaning and we only really exist when it's in relation to other people really struck a chord with me. 

If you are looking for fast paced or hopeful dystopian fiction you won't like this.

Ending spoilers

Have seen the story described as "a puzzle that refuses to be solved", and I feel that's accurate - but as frustrating as that is, I can respect the authors decision not to explain anything. It sort of places you alongside the narrator and gives you the option to either choose to continue going knowing that there probably won't be a resolution, or give up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Death, Terminal illness, Infertility, Kidnapping, Confinement, Abandonment, and Suicide

Moderate: Police brutality and Physical abuse

kate6598's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.0

Was waiting the whole time for book to amount to something just for nothing. Incredibly disappointing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide

nialiversuch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infertility, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, and Cancer

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Dementia, Body horror, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

peggy_racham's review against another edition

5.0

"I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all."

I rarely read bleak dystopias but this one got me. Something about a woman wondering about her own humanity just speaks to me. There are no answers but it doesnt really matter in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Dementia, Grief, Confinement, Infertility, Medical content, and Cancer