Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

37 reviews

nicolesbookreviews's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Murder, Racism, and Toxic relationship

jemmers's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Murder, Violence, and Vomit

r_o_s_e's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infidelity, Misogyny, and Forced institutionalization

veelaughtland's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

savvy999's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Unique and rich, this character study of a young woman and her vampiric struggles are among the most thrilling and well paced descriptions of a modern vampire sort of life I’ve read. It deftly balances the fantastical and the grounded. It’s devastating in its honesty and viscerally descriptive passages about hunger, longing and the world slipping through fingers. It is a book to devour. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, and Animal death

yolanda_h's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Sexual harassment

Minor: Terminal illness

charmgirl3's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

If you liked Ladybird, you’ll like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Infidelity, Murder, Grief, Dementia, Rape, and Self harm

The trigger warnings listed are generalizations— in which the themes are very loose in their depictions and most are not graphic (aside from the death ones). I listed them just to be safe, because although I wasn’t triggered, I can see how others might be.

karpatenhund's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I didn‘t think it was a thriller but it was a very good read all about art, food, womanhood and the relationship with your parents. I enjoyed reading it! A nice modern take on vampire stories. I would have loved it more had it been more suspenseful/thrilling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Animal death

Minor: Eating disorder and Sexual harassment

bananacustard's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious

• 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Sexual content, Grief, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

jackietanori's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Wow. Wow. And wow again.
I’ve been a fan of vampire based literature since I was 10 years old, first with Twiligh; then classics like Dracula  and Carmella; historical fiction like A Dowry of Blood and Interview with the Vampire; back around to contemporary teen based magazine ones like Vampire Academy and Crave; all the shows and movies you can think of. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Vampire Diaries, What We Do In the Shadows, Van Helsing, The Lost Boys, heck even Hotel Transylvania. The list goes on til the end of time, but I have never read anything like this. 
Claire Kohda writes like a woman unhinged. Like there’s nowhere but up, but she’d rather plummet head first down into the abyss. Writing this lush should be against the law. 
Lydia is a woman we all know. She’s inside of us all. She thinks what we think and acts like we act. A vampire, but more human than you can ever put into words. 


Crying score: yes, I’ll think about this book for the rest of my life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Murder, Blood, Death, Gore, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Sexism, Animal death, Cannibalism, Mental illness, and Racism