Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

21 reviews

salinafloye's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.5

This was a great short read and not entirely what I was expecting but a great way to kick off pride month for me 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

booksnbcys's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Blood, Death, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, and Murder

Minor: Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Grief, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, War, and Suicidal thoughts

rock_gnome's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Deadnaming, Violence, Death, Gore, and War

Moderate: Sexual content

wishbea's review against another edition

Gratuitous violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Transphobia, Dysphoria, and War

sproutedpages's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Deadnaming, and Transphobia

Moderate: Murder, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Religious bigotry

frenchpants's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming and Transphobia

Minor: Murder, Child death, Death, and Homophobia

callidoralblack's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and War

Moderate: Blood, Sexual content, Transphobia, Abandonment, Bullying, Deadnaming, Murder, and Gore

Minor: Homophobia, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, and Torture

pobi's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? It's complicated

5.0

Charming and wholesome and such a comforting read. Perfectly the type of book I was craving.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming and Transphobia

Moderate: Violence and Murder

kay_reads_books6's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming and Murder

Minor: War

james1star's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective fast-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? Yes

4.0

I read ‘queer trans Peter Pan retelling’ and was instantly intrigued. I won’t explain the plot as a lot of the enjoyment you get from reading this is the unraveling of Chant’s storyline. I really enjoyed this little book and would totally recommend it. Some parts were exactly to my liking but as it went on the more I fell in love with the characters, understood what was going on and just couldn’t put it down. It’s also very imaginative with Chant talking the story of Peter Pan, Caption Hook and the world of Neverland places you wouldn’t expect. Comments on the queer experience, specifically from a transmale perspective was really insightful and despite being set in a fantastical world, messages and realness shone through to ‘our’ world. There is some level of ambiguity in this story as well which I loved, I understood a certain part to be a comment on queer suicide but am possibly mistaken?? - if so it’s handled well detailing reasons why one might choose to end their life but more so there’s a positive outlook. This shines through with other aspects which made the reading experience a very enjoyable one, it’s fun, strange and unique. The characters were written quite well, especially Peter, James and Ernest, but could’ve benefited from being more fleshed out if was longer. The writing isn’t anything that amazing but is readable with no complains. It’s also kinda adorable too at times so yhh… read it!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia, Violence, Deadnaming, Grief, Death, and Murder