Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

22 reviews

stirlitza's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Violence, Sexual violence, Death, and Rape

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Abortion, Torture, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

lindcherry's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Rape, Abortion, and Miscarriage

camilla_perotti's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective tense 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: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Classism, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Racism and Racial slurs

melitiamelitia's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Transphobia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Rape, and Toxic friendship

Minor: War, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Violence

mariew11's review against another edition

Too many graphic or unpleasant details.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, and Violence

lukerik's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

4.0

The thing about this novel is how real it feels. Some of this is because it is. If you don’t live nearby it’s worth hopping on google street view and following Margot’s last journey as Robin and Strike retrace it. But it’s not just real details like that. It’s the build up of incidental detail not relevant to the plot, the believable psychology of the characters and the flawless dialogue. There were a couple of points where it felt so real it actually destroyed my suspension of disbelief. Take the scene where our heroes interview Irene and Janice. We’ve all met Irene. That’s exactly how she talks. And it’s at times like that that we see the ranged joining and parting lines of our lives. The easy downward gradient leads to the twinge of guilt, the trial, life imprisonment. The harder track is not to murder her, not to squeeze the life from her reddening neck for just one minute of silence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Rape, and Death

Minor: Abortion

alexandra_a_a's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Death, Child death, Child abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, Ableism, Misogyny, and Abortion

microbemom's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Cursing, Mental illness, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

mypatronusisajedi's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Trafficking, Murder, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Rape

alicehamblett's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Violence