Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

A Discovery of Witches (Movie Tie-In) by Deborah Harkness

34 reviews

joey_paige's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Grief, Stalking, and Abandonment

flyintothestorm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Mira que soy fan de los finales abiertos, pero dejar una historia a la mitad y que quede bien es más difícil que pase y no es el caso para mí.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Death of parent

saroreen's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and War

discogecko's review against another edition

Couldn't get past the evolution and genetics explanations... They're not accurate. Dislike the protagonist.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Stalking, and Death of parent

ruthee's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

Unlike others, I didn’t actually mine the pace or world-building…but the abusive relationship (red flag, after red flag, after red flag) framed as ‘that’s just the way vampires are, and my love is enough’ was so bad it just kept taking me out of the story. 

It’s not often (if ever) that I completely prefer a tv or film adaptation to the original material, but in this case, my love of the tv series was what got me through this. 

In audiobook, the narrator was good, except when it came to any accent that wasn’t their own. The English/Scottish/Australian ones ranged between literally lol to offensive…so strange for a professionally produced book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

karly_ackley's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

jaynovara's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

piperclover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

I'm so torn on this. On one hand I love the mystery around the manuscript, the magic system, the convent, and all of that stuff. On the other hand I despise Matthew as a love interest. He could be the villain, he could be the best friend, he could just be a random vampire that they dragged in to all this, but I cannot stand him as a love interest.  His character has some flashes of being interesting but by-and-large hes just a controlling, obnoxious Edward Cullen era vampire love interest. 

And that's my biggest gripe with this book that it feels like a mix of National Treasure and the bad parts of Twilight.  You can clearly see that this was written post twilight boom. I just hate this stupid relationship so much but I'm so interested in the actual plot that I might get sucked in and try the next book. 

 It was a bit long and a bit slow so it definitely could have cut about a 100 pages out but I did really enjoy the fact that even though it's all about magic, they did address the legalities of the legalities of their plan which was a fun thing to add. And also it raised a very good question about whether or not vampires can tell when somebody is menstruating and if they like it or not. 

I initially gave this a 3 but its actually a 2.5. I cant think about it without thinking about how much I hated the "romance" so much it makes me mad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Murder

Moderate: Stalking

Harassment

maggies's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Started reading the series primarily because I want to watch the show, and now I'm even more excited to keep reading the series! I think it might have benefitted from some editing down—lots of repetition of the same sentiment or even sentence in just a few paragraphs, for example—but overall a really engaging fantasy story. The world of the witches, vampires, and daemons is laid out for readers as Diana learns the details, which is a simple and effective trick for this kind of world-building. Docked a star because it's just not believable to me that the entire book takes place over less than two months.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Stalking

Minor: Xenophobia and War

baearles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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: Death, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and War