Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

83 reviews

callsignsongbird's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I thought it was just okay. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. Some times Dolarhyde's (the big bad of this book) inner monologue got to be too much and I was like "Oh my god! Shut-up!" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

It's a book about murders, so there's a lot of triggers in this book.

jax00's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Terrifying to think that this could be possible. Kept me rethinking how I looked at those around me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Stalking

thefigtree's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Racial slurs

thechocolatefinger'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I actually think about this books a lot and how good it was. I really recommend and it’s much better than the film
it focusses on actual Francis not Hannibal so don’t expect stuff about Hannibal even though they put his name all on the front cover he’s just a minor character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Death, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, Dysphoria, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Body horror, Dementia, Gore, Homophobia, Stalking, Animal death, Blood, Grief, Medical content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

cowardlyteaman's review

challenging dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

I read this after watching the NBC Hannibal series, and was told I would be disappointed, but I really am not. Actually, if you ignore the homosexuality, then the show has stayed surprisingly true to the book. Especially Crawford—my God—he was so annoyingly naïve, it was beautiful.
I think the antagonist was good, and the author also killed off the character I wanted him to?? Amazing.
However, sometimes the dialogue is so absurd that I find it inappropriate? Like, the amount of humour in a book with such a serious theme, I dunno.
I liked this book. :) I want to read the following books as well.

Also, I think I have homosexual feelings for Dr. Bloom.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Homophobia

lnlntower's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Murder, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Domestic abuse

carrionkid's review against another edition

4.0

I enjoyed this a lot, it came together really well but I felt the conclusion was a little rushed. Probably gonna check out the other books in the series while I'm at it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

paperbackacademie's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical content, Sexual violence, Rape, Murder, Gun violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

nicoleherz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Creeeeeepy

Writing was very direct, felt appropriate for this action theiller

Had seen the movie before and surprised to find it followed the book like EXACTLY

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Ableism, Child abuse, Gun violence, Body shaming, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Stalking

gabbyreynolds'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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Gun violence