Reviews tagging 'Murder'

At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop

75 reviews

paultaylor's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Rape

jackflan's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

This book was super quick to read, and that was due to the writing style being super easy to absorb. Many words were repeated and phrases as well making it feel more like a poetry novella type book. And I think that it may be in part due to the fact that it was translated from French to English. So reading something like this was new to me and very enjoyable. It was a raw and honest story with a perspective like none Id ever read before. I would recommend. Like I said, first time I’ve read something like this. Nothing crazy unheard of— but a unique time period, and perspective of being black and fighting for France in WW1. Overall very enjoyable read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, and Murder

sofiafilgomes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Body horror, Death, Hate crime, War, and Murder

Minor: Kidnapping

daniellekat's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

I really liked the beginning of this book and I loved the prose throughout. But around midway I just lost interest and I really hate

a vague ending

. I would certainly recommend for the writing alone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault

lifeworthreads's review against another edition

Gruesome and repetitive 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, and Violence

js1512's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Torture, War, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, and Blood

the_bitchy_booker's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Murder

Minor: Cannibalism

bersblue's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Blood, Murder, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and War

cody's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.5

this was… excruciating. very, very excruciating

god’s truth, the repetition of certain phrases and even entire sentences was far too much for me. i know, i understand that it probably had a thematic purpose, but i truly could not care less. god’s truth, it only felt like padding to make this story that could’ve been 50 pages 3x that long. i know, i understand that this book is technically probably very, very good; i’m sure it could be studied in a college course. so this is definitely a case of it just not working for me personally :)

also, this felt too…. masculine for me lol. all the “more-than-brother” sh*t, the violence, and the handling of women was just icky to me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: War

qqjj's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Medical trauma, Death, Colonisation, Body horror, and Gore