Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

39 reviews

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

Three people I know recommended this book to me. If they'd led with how funny it is, I might've read it sooner. On the other hand, if they'd led with how corpse-strewn and emotional it is, I might've read it sooner, too. (Basically, what I'm saying is, if you're going to recommend a book to me, please tell me why you think I'd like it. No matter how much I like you, just telling me, "I liked it" won't convince me.) Anyway. This is a funny, emotional, corpse-strewn mystery, and I liked it a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Dementia, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Graphic: Ageism Moderate: Nonconsensual drug use, Euthanasia

brieoqueijo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was SO GOOD! Honestly, an amazing surprise, I love all the main character and the resolution of “who did it?” actually surprised me, which is quite hard to do these days. I laughed out laud, cried (twice) and gasped multiple times. I’d run to my roommate to tell her about it and even call my mom. Now I’m giving it to my mom so we can gossip about it. I’m super excited to read the second book and I hope there are more to come!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Deportation

little_white's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious fast-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? Yes

3.75

This book would be 50x better if the author got rid of the almost constant fatphobia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Moderate: Medical content and Murder

Minor: Suicide

jg93's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy

shylockholmes's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

Frankly disappointing. Very clunky writing, 2D Characters, and the plot gets easily lost.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming

kajoreads's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

The beginning felt slow. Luckily it picked up some pace towards the end. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Suicide, Dementia, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug use, Gun violence, Sexism, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, and Pregnancy

daffodilcherry's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

NEGATIVE REVIEW: Had heard rave things about this book, but was disappointed! As a whodunit lover I wouldn't recommend it. With 115 chapters in 380 pages, the POV shifts and repetitive telling (not showing) of scenes was very annoying. Top of the annoying choice list was the random journal excerpts from Joyce, told in first person. Overall, the various plots, characters and murders were overly complicated and Osman failed to provide enough information to pretend that he'd given you enough to figure out who'd done it as you went along. This book had pacing issues that I fell are due to bad editing, if you find the first 20 pages choppy it doesn't get any better. All the characters are written to be likeable but I disliked them all at the end. The only character I miss is Ian, who was an asshole, because everyone else just annoyed me by the end. 

Wheelhouses: older main characters, whodunit, cosy murders,

unreliable narrators

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Doghouses: choppy chapters!!!!! Please for the love of all that's good stop killing the momentum by randomly ending the chapter in the middle of a scene, the weird diet talk/fat shaming/writing about Chris overeating crap food which seems to be Osman's leading theory about people being fat being overly slovenly and lazy, Osman's pedantry about biscotto singular in the POV of the cockney boxer, Joyce's overly cutesy first person POV chapters that absolutely killed any momentum or immersionn and made me froth with rage.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

bronzel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective 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: Death, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Dementia, and Murder

Minor: Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

te_ss_i's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Pregnancy

arudnicki's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious medium-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Suicide, Murder, and Alcohol