Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani

9 reviews

tetrootz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Child death, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexism, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death, Cannibalism, Medical content, Mental illness, Death of parent, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Murder, Child abuse, Classism, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Stalking, Racism, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Homophobia, Blood, Fatphobia, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

kokoberry's review against another edition

adventurous reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Misogyny, and Child abuse

Moderate: Racism, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Violence, and Abandonment

emilia777's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

4.25

i think fairytales fundamentally have a sense of terror to them, as a kid this seemed obvious yet unimportant, but as you get older you start to question what it actually is you should be so afraid of. i adored these stories and i know i’ll  come back to them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Racism, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

bloodyvalentine's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

katsbookedout's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

My biggest pet peeve with this book is that it doesn’t use quotation marks. Why not??
Anyways, I enjoyed the spin on classic fairytales it, it was interesting and fun to read. Also I love how culturally diverse the characters were! I did a little cheer each time they weren’t defaulted to being white. Plus the ways that aspects of their backgrounds were integrated into the story really added to the reading experience for me.

Here’s my ranking of the short stories:
1) Beauty and the Beast (the “is he rich?” line really sealed the deal for me)
2) Hansel and Gretel (this is a Shakuntala stan account)
3) Rupunzel
4) Peter Pan (this temporarily filled my little hopeless romantic heart, and it was much appreciated)
5) Little Mermaid
6) Snow White
7) Cinderella
8) Jack and the Beanstalk
9) Bluebeard 
10) Sleeping Beauty (I’m still kinda confused about what actually happened in this story)
11) Red Riding Hood (my 14 year old Wattpad reading self really came out here, thinking there was going to be some sort of werewolf romance subplot 🙄. Embarrassing.)
12) Rumpelstiltskin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Racism, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity, Death of parent, Animal death, and Child death

sarahaf712's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Grief, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement, Violence, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Infertility, Stalking, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

maple_dove's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, and The Little Mermaid, are my favorite chapters in this book. Red Riding Hood chapter is my top favorite though.

Soman Chainani took these stories (most of which are problematic) and made them relevant, feminist, and enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Murder, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Infidelity

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

rainerasnic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Minor: Death, Murder, Abandonment, and Blood

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

A beautiful collection of fairy tale retellings (and Peter Pan). All are good, but a few, like the Peter Pan one, blew me away and made me cry, it's so beautiful and sad. I rank some of these stories with those found in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber."

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Blood

Minor: Death of parent and Child death