Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Lontoon salatieteellinen seura by Sarah Penner

92 reviews

dezzella's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.0

I really enjoyed this. The secret society aspects were interesting, felt a little like A Marvellous Light but in a good way. The main character decides to learn how to do seances in order to track down her sister's killer. It's more focused on the mystery and characters than anything paranormal, but that isn't to say you might find yourself facing some ghosts. I really enjoyed the writing and characters, and especially the Victorian setting. I can definitely see myself reading this again some day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Murder

sassacass11's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.5

I liked this book. The characters were genuine, especially Lenna, who i found very accurate in her thoughts and emotions as she was experiencing the events of her story. 

For the first half, i thought it was easily predictable; but that changed as i kept reading. Details were different, but my conclusions fell short because of a couple twists i didn’t anticipate.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Blood

piebelly's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Classism

tmholsman_1994's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

3.75

While I really wanted to enjoy this book it kind of fell a little flat for me. I think it was mostly the writing. I had to use the audiobook to help push me a long to finish it. Overall, story wise it has a gripping story about finding yourself, love, murder, ghosts, and mystery. Great story, but the writing was meh.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

kendrashea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

stephaniezd's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Not a book I would normally gravitate toward, but it was really good! It never had that moment where it gripped me and I was rushing to find out what was going to happen next but it was enjoyable just the same. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, and Murder

mbedrosian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Murder, and Gaslighting

megpratt's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

ghostmomxoxo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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: Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism and Fire/Fire injury

abnormal_shadow's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

So, this book was recommended to me by someone who had read the Last Binding Trilogy (a book series i love very much and everyone should read) saying it was pretty similar which I do get. I like that the book is based off sort of off real life setting and Seance craze as stated by the author in the note they left. When I first started to book, I assumed it predictable from what I could see but as the story progressed, I realized I knew nothing of what was going to happen, guessing something spot on and others very much wildly wrong. I like that the romance was not the A plot and not even the B plot more of a side to the main course that was the 2 murder mysteries. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol