Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

39 reviews

nicnevin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

I despised 99% of the characters but it was a good read. Tess deserved better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism

evieolive's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Brand new fave!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Abandonment

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Colonisation

atalea's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Rape and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

sarah_speaks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Misogyny, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Minor: Stalking and Colonisation

mariekeroos's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

Good story line, but typical portrayal of helplessly in love woman and comments on her being as such

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Abandonment

Moderate: Murder, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

Minor: Rape

burnedstory's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-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? Yes

5.0

Hardy paints a haunting yet beautiful picture of the agony and the injustice of being a woman who is "impure." The details, the internal struggles have been potrayed as good as one can expect. A beautiful haunting read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Rape

tmickey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity and Blood

rachelheth's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Misogyny, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Murder

haileyanne's review against another edition

challenging sad slow-paced

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

4.0

What a bizarre experience!!! Just when Tess can’t get it any worse, she does. A story about the injustice women experience. But just too long. It felt like 3 different stories in one. What a rollercoaster. I wouldn’t recommend it, but I also don’t regret reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Murder

bubothereader's review against another edition

slow-paced

0.25

• Despised this book—absolutely abhorrent. 
• Literally every bad thing that could happen, did. I find it absolutely unbelievable.
  • Pregnant by rape, abandoned by husband because her thought her unpure, reconnects with rapist, husband comes back after years, she murders the rapist, and then she gets hanged. WTAF
• The writing was beautiful in some places; however, it was MOSTLY arduous to read. Likely because it was originally a serial.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Pregnancy, and Abandonment