Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Falling by T.J. Newman

20 reviews

shesflippinpages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

nitar8's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and War

gwenswoons's review

tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Compelling in a certain sense - it’s constructed effectively, I guess. But it’s disappointing that the entire premise and development of the book is based on the most obvious, stereotypical, racist tropes. When you see all the content warnings flagged by users - Islamophobia, racism, et al - that is not content in the book; it IS the book, it is the writer. It’s not good. Had to speed it up to nearly 3x just to slog through it on a long drive, today.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lpdx's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Islamophobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Body shaming and Pedophilia

lectures_de_chloe's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Un livre qui se lit rapidement. Rien d'inoubliable mais une lecture qui garde le lecteur intéressé du début à la fin. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, and Murder

beltari's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

Americans = good
Literally anyone in the middle east = suicide terrorist

When I started reading it, I had to double check the publication date, it looked like something that would come out in 2001, not 2021. Where was T. J. Newman on January 6?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, and Murder

jenniferbbookdragon's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

My heart was pounding from beginning to end. I was deeply engaged in the story,  which felt like it could happen here and now. We take our safety for granted and trust flight crews, the TSA, the air traffic controllers, ground crews, and the FAA to ensure the human and mechanical parts of air travel work smoothly. With headlines about plane malfunctions,  frequent flight schedule problems,  and combative passengers, it is easy to forget about the darker threats thwarted without the public even knowing about them.
Newman did a great job humanizing the "bad guys" and demonstrating the complex emotions that can paralyze people in crisis.  Her decision to include the aftermath and trauma of survival levels the story up above the typical beach read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

perfectcupoftea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sh543's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Suicide attempt, and War

r_o_s_e's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cursing, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail