Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Mad Honey by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult

174 reviews

erin819's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Transphobia, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol

butkerfingers's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, and Murder

juliemariesmith3's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Outing

caseymarieagnes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Domestic abuse

anikar's review against another edition

4.5

one of the best coauthored books in terms of unified voice, i did not even realize while reading and stumbled upon this info later. not a 5 because i would not be willing to reread this due to the challenging content and length.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Transphobia

michaelador's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Transphobia, Hate crime, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide attempt and Outing

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Child death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Bullying, Death, and Toxic relationship

lemons's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Suicide, Pregnancy, Deadnaming, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Outing

Minor: Mass/school shootings

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Outing, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Death, Violence, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Body horror, Cursing, Deadnaming, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

giraffefightinggravity's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

Opportunity missed at the end:

When Olivia gives Lily's mom honey, she should have told her it came from a queen bee they'd named after her daughter. It was a perfect setup.

I generally liked it, but

they were painting Asher as abusive for most of the book. Did he actually grab Lily hard enough to bruise her, or were those parts being written misleadingly? Obviously he didn't kill her either way, but I feel like they did all this setup of "Asher is also abusive" and then 'oh never mind.' ?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Murder