Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

21 reviews

francisca_correia's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Violence, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Torture, Infertility, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Terminal illness

heaven_leigh10's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Murder, and Self harm

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

wordsareworlds's review

dark mysterious 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? No

3.0

This book starts off so strongly, and has an amazing premise. But for me, the structure of it being a kind of memoir told to the narrator we meet first didn't work particularly well. It ended up feeling like more of a prologue than the first of a trilogy, and the style made me feel too removed from Molly and the emotions she was feeling throughout. 

Oddly, it may have worked better as a short story, where we didn't have quite so many moments in Molly's life explained and the identity of the person at the start a bigger reveal at the end. I may pick up the other two in the trilogy, but I'm not particularly anxious to do so. I do believe that the story could work very well for people who aren't alienated by the framework.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent, Self harm, Suicide, Sexual content, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Cancer, and Terminal illness

readingsofaslinky's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Self harm, Cancer, Child death, Murder, Confinement, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

wlwism's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Body horror, Murder, Death, and Death of parent

mxpringle's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, Cancer, Medical content, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Confinement, and Torture

Minor: Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

keen's review

dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Blood, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Fire/Fire injury

sarah984's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

I liked the premise enough to try out the next one, but I thought the actual story was a bit weak. The Russian stereotypes were silly and I thought the true nature of Molly's power was a bit over the top. The clinical writing style mostly worked for me but it made it harder to understand the character in some ways too. How much of all that was biological imperative?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Blood, Death, Violence, Murder, Self harm, Death of parent, and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Excrement, Animal death, Child death, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infertility, and Pedophilia

house_of_hannah's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

2.0

Some BookTubers I really enjoy have given this 5 stars, so I was expecting something pretty great. However, this was just an average read for me.

Molly's tone throughout the entire book is very monotone. Due to this there never feels to be much tension, or stakes, even though she is hunted by these duplicates of herself. It's just such an average day to her, that it doesn't feel like much of anything.

There are a few interesting moments, but there's also A LOT of plotholes that really took me out of the story at some points. Maybe the next two novellas flesh it out more, but I don't think I'm interested enough to continue with the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Confinement, Blood, and Death

kstericker's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Medical content, Grief, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury