Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

137 reviews

r34d3r's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Murder

syraluna's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Murder, Racism, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Incest and Death of parent

keeganrb's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Incest

jb_variant's review

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

Pretty bleak, sometimes easy-reading prose, sometimes it got a bit bogged down. Glad I read it, but not going to be recommending it a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

ricksilva's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

5.0

This had a lot going on, including a fairly deep dive into Swedish finance and journalism, that the author somehow manages to make fascinating. The plot and backstory is very complex, but the two main characters shine through it all brilliantly.

I particularly liked the handling of nontraditional relationships involving both main characters as well as several of the supporting cast.

The story has several moments of extreme violence, including sexual violence, which are that much more shocking because they punctuate long sections of very slowly building tension as the main characters do detective work to solve what seems at first like the coldest of cold cases.

The author manages to wrap up a hugely tangled mess of threads and characters into something that is satisfying in the end, but never so much so that it gets wrapped into a perfect happy ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Incest, Violence, and Rape

kellhus's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Murder, and Adult/minor relationship

bearlyliterate's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, Incest, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Violence, Murder, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Mental illness

Minor: Abortion

toveakesson's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

blueregard's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

Overall the mystery didn't grab my interest and all of the terrible things that happen in this book felt inserted for shock value. It's not terrible, but it was a boring read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Murder, Rape, and Violence

boogiebeez's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

this shit insane

• I never read mystery but this was actually very good!
•  definetly was a good book to make into a movie cause the dialogue in the book feels like a movie script.
• I 🖤 lisbeth salander
• i feel like I'm probably not gonna read the other books in the series but you never know 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Incest, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Transphobia, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual violence, Ableism, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Stalking, Body shaming, Death, Kidnapping, Child death, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cursing, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, and Car accident

Minor: Abortion, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Confinement