Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Sol de medianoche by Stephenie Meyer

30 reviews

melissageritas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious relaxing slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Animal death

ecravens's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Death, Violence, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

brandie_abbie19's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Car accident, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Violence, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

robertjspradlin's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Body horror, Torture, Stalking, Murder, Kidnapping, and Blood

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.25

Midnight Sun is not what I would call a great book, but it is a fascinating one. If you can get past all of Edward's self-loathing and inability to do anything right (which is extremely hard), there are a few interesting tidbits to mull over. I think one of my main gripes with the Twilight saga in general is that every now and then Meyer touches on something compelling and then zooms right past it for the angsty romance factors.

1. Edward's relationship to Rosalie is so strange and captivating. He loathes her, but he thinks about her the most out of all his family members. Obviously, Rosalie was Bella's foil in the main series, but I never gave much thought to how that impacted Edward's perspective of her.
2. The deeper depiction and explanations of Alice and Jasper's abilties were cool. 
3. I despise the way Edward's mind-reading is depicted. I think it falls into many of the pitfalls that make me dislike most mind-reading characters. The apathy, the loathing for what people think in the privacy of their own heads, the lack of any personal ethics, the fact that he is not impacted at all beyond annoyance... that's a little too flat and Christian for my mind-reading opinions. That said, there is a great moment where Edward uses Emmett and Jasper's minds as his rearview mirrors. This is the ONLY good thing Meyer wrote about Edward's mind-reading.

But those things aside, this book is a slog. Edward's angst is overwrought and hard to read. Add in the Cullens' holier-than-thou vibes and it's just. none of the fun that vampires usually are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Blood, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Gore, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Cursing, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Rape, and Drug use

-Racism & cultural appropriation tags are more about how fucked up Meyer's portrayal of the Quileute Tribe than anything that happens in-book (though Edward is hostile toward them).

gabriellesimpson's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

taking 0.5 off for edward’s constant whining but i’m so surprised how much i enjoyed this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Murder and Violence

__romancereader__'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

-i also liked this book in the series it was good i do wish i would've read this right before or after i read twilight but instead i read them in the order of there publication dates you still can read them based of the years they released i just personally would've found it better if i read midnight sun before or after i read twilight overall i did enjoy this book i loved how we finally got a look into Edwards pov i was happy that i got a understanding of his mind and how he thought and what he heard of others thoughts it made me feel a better understanding therefore i could enjoy his character allot i was always team Jacob but after these books it will always be team Edward for me i love this whole series i always watched the twilight series movies and enjoyed it but reading the books i enjoyed these characters more and now that the book series is over for me i honestly miss Edward and Bella like there real people overall i rated this book five stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Stalking, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Not all content warnings are about the main characters some are and some are about the characters you meet/hear in the book🙃🙃💞💞😁😁😁😁🥰🥰🥰🥰

lorenab's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

It's a very good book. It gives you a little more insight into Edwards thoughts and feelings toward Bella. 
The plot is (obviously) very similar to Twilight which takes away some of the suspense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Torture, and Death

Minor: Murder and Suicidal thoughts

harrypotterfan33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

5.0

Brill, a pleasure as always to read Twilight! I think this book really shows the struggle on Edward's behalf of falling in love with Bella. Also, shows how strong the war between Edward and Rosalie is as well as the connections he has to Alice and Emmett. Would totally read it again and recommend to all die-hard Twilight fans!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Minor: Animal death and Car accident

Also swears!

zoemorana's review against another edition

reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Violence

Moderate: Blood, Stalking, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Murder