Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

93 reviews

allyreadsstuff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement and Lesbophobia

Minor: Vomit

carinaa_khl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Kidnapping

Minor: Homophobia, Slavery, Death of parent, and Alcohol

payneamorgan's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

rsb12's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, Murder, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Infertility, Death of parent, and Alcohol

jasminechocklettslee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

sipnayan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Vomit, and Trafficking

tinysierra's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Despite some of the dark content, I found the writing style easy to get through.

I enjoyed the moments that Lei founds strength in love and friendship. 

In spite of only getting a little glimpse of Lei’s family in the herb shop at the beginning, their bond and the coziness of Lei’s home came across well. 

I liked the cultures that the author set up. The world-building was fascinating. Not every character feels the same way about the situation as our main character does, so it makes them feel all the more realistic. 

The romance was cute! 

Sex work and same sex couples are stigmatized by some characters in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

the_bookish_rose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

I binge-read this book in a day because it was super entertaining and the worldbuilding captured me. I don’t usually praise settings in a book, but this one did such a great job describing each location enough to where I could envision it without thinking too hard on it. It is a book with heavy topics so keep the warnings in mind, but I enjoyed the main character’s vitality and fierceness against the system around her. The plot was also well paced, and I loved the little cliffhanger it left off on, leaving me wanting more. I can’t wait to see where she goes next in the next book. 

OH! And the ✨🏳️‍🌈 sapphic representation?? Chef’s kiss. It was built up well and I’m so glad they didn’t just have them together and then one is 💀- I loved it and as a sapphic, I fell in love with their relationship and hope to see it continue into the series.

If fantasy, female empowerment with sapphic flavoring are your favs in a book, please read Girls of Paper and Fire!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

thekiwibibliophile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Overall, this was a decent book. I wish some characters were more fleshed out but I guess that’s what the sequel is for. It was an interesting premise something’s lacking execution but overall a decent, if not hard, read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment