Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

88 reviews

merri217's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Rape, Gun violence, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Child death and Abortion

Minor: Police brutality

gveltaine's review

dark slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug abuse, Murder, and Rape

kjurewicz's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

Did not finish. I gave this book my best effort and got to page 400, but I was just not invested enough in the characters or their story to continue. The book was long and tedious, with a lot of extra details that often weren’t necessary. The only character I somewhat cared about was Ajay, but his portion of the story was entirely overshadowed by the subplot with Prem (which was honestly very hard to read). Maybe if I had more background knowledge of Indian culture, I may have found it more interesting, but in the end I just couldn’t get through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, Child death, Murder, and Drug use

zophiebrown's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

Excellently written, with a dark story told through intertwining narratives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, Classism, Murder, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Trafficking, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abortion

elizabeth1216's review

No storyline happening. It felt mostly like shock factor of the poverty and life some people are living 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, and Animal death

ppppaula's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

I had such high hopes for this one but am so disappointed. Overly long with thoroughly unlikeable characters. I enjoyed the beginning with Ajay’s story but it went downhill from there.  Dark and depressing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Sexual content, Addiction, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Violence, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Abortion

natekka's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Sexual content, Slavery, Sexual assault, Death, Physical abuse, Car accident, Child death, Drug use, Rape, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Abortion, and Death of parent

Minor: Colonisation

casualvamp's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-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

2.5

Deepti Kapoor is an immensely talented author, and this book is exceptionally well-written. From reading the synopsis, it’s not a book I would typically read, but I thought I would enjoy it much more than I did. It took me a really long time to finish because it's very lengthy and disorganized. The switches between POVs were jarring and got confusing in the second half, which made the storyline hard to follow. I found the vast majority of the characters unbearable (except for Ajay), so it was hard to be invested in the story. Ajay's POV had me absolutely enthralled, but once it switched over to Neda's and Sunny's POV, I was barely trudging through it. I almost had to put this book down several times due to its incredibly dark themes and GRAPHIC depictions of violence, which made me genuinely naseous. I felt that for the majority of the book, I was either almost asleep out of sheer boredom or incredibly disturbed by all of the unnecessary violence.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Blood, Addiction, Miscarriage, Violence, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Suicide, Animal death, Self harm, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Murder, Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.5

Sounded like it should’ve been a really good book. In reality, there were parts that were good, but most of it was disappointing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Grief, Bullying, Trafficking, Rape, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Torture, Abortion, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Stalking, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Car accident, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Confinement, Murder, and Violence

ttatt's review

adventurous dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, and Violence