Reviews tagging 'Murder'

A Case of Possession by KJ Charles

10 reviews

language_loving_amateur's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

4.5

 In the first book Crane was like, "I can't wait to leave Piper and go back to London where everything is great." In A Case of Possession, they have been living in London for a few months, and surprise surprise, it is not perfect. They are together, which is good, but there are a lot of hurdles to overcome which is satisfying. There are a lot of new characters, only a few of whom had been mentioned in the first book. Like the first book, it is short (a novella and then a short story (A Case of Spirits), but I was astounded by how much plot fit into two hundred some pages. There is significantly more sex in this one than in book 1. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Sexual content

sohma4uesugi's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I continue to love the narrator, but I got a bit lost with this one. It was a little hard to follow and confusing with how many characters kept getting added. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Homophobia

madscientistcat's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Rape

pvbobrien's review

adventurous mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, Animal death, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide, Medical content, and Murder

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Sexual content

Moderate: Murder, Antisemitism, and Medical content

Minor: Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, and Classism

wilybooklover's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Animal death, Blood, Sexual content, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Drug use, and Violence

Minor: Racism, Child death, and Suicide

siad's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Vomit, Suicide, and Child death

ehmannky's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-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

4.25

The Magpie Lord felt like such a contained story that I wasn't sure what to expect from this sequel. But it's such a fun addition to the story! I like it when a sequel feels like a complete story to itself, and this did. A good, quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Death, Murder, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Suicide, Child death, and Racism

booksthatburn's review

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.5

A CASE OF POSSESSION is a great sequel, continuing the romance from THE MAGPIE LORD while maintaining a similar body count. Covert lovers solving a murder is a very scintillating combination and it works well. 

The story balance between their relationship and solving the actual murders is artful, so perfectly balanced. I love the rapport between the main characters and it's so great to see both of them in the context of other people they know and/or work with.

This doesn't really wrap up anything left hanging from the first book, the main thing it continues is the ongoing relationship between the main characters but that definitely doesn't end here. The entire storyline starts in this volume and wasn't present previously, and the main plot is introduced and resolved within this book. It doesn't leave anything specific to be picked up later in terms of the specific plot, but since this is a paranormal romance series, the relationship itself is the throughline and definitely has more to be explored. The main characters haven't changed and the POV character is the same. The previous book alternated between Stephen and Crane, but this one is just Crane because it's focused on his perspective on their relationship, and a lot of the tension from that is the uncertainty caused by the way Stephen comes and goes with no notice. Crane's narrative voice is consistent with the previous book. This would mostly make sense if someone read it without the first book, though of course the relationships already in place would lack some of the backstory from before.

This continues the mix of magic, trauma, catharsis, and very steamy sex which made the first book so good, I'll definitely finish reading the trilogy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Murder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Gore, Rape, and Vomit

Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, and Xenophobia

CWs for A CASE OF SPIRITS: alcoholism, gore, death.