Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Schoolhouse by Sophie Ward

6 reviews

maddiie046's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Pedophilia

delinxw's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Idk. The story was fine, it took me a while to really get into it. The ending felt unsatisfying. I have read and still read multiple books with different pov chapters, but this just didn’t do it for me. I clearly had a favorite pov (writing style mainly), which made it hard to get through; as I was kind of just hoping to get to one of those chapters after finishing the one before😂

Lots of trigger warnings for this book though. I annotate all my books and my most used tabs are for “disgusted” and “shock”. I’ve tried to fill in the content warnings as best as I could. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Sexual assault, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, and Lesbophobia

booksandbabble's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Rape, and Murder

Minor: Animal death and Adult/minor relationship

lilalhreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, and Stalking

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicide

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

gemmalewis1110's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual harassment, Ableism, and Murder

mysterymom40's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Rape

Moderate: Ableism, Stalking, Torture, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

Minor: Pregnancy

repeated flashbacks of grooming; disturbing scenes of older kids bullying younger students; educators not being responsible caregivers towards children in their care; one incident of an agitated horse (induced by a human) , crushing the bones of a boy;