Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Fièvre noire by Cécile Desthuilliers, Karen Marie Moning

4 reviews

meganpbennett's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

3.0

I read the first four books in the Fever series years ago, and I decided to reread Darkfever to see how it held up to what I remember. I remember really liking it, but I found it was okay this time. Mac isn't a particularly great narrator, and story is far darker than I remember. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Blood, Violence, Sexism, Body horror, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Murder, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Rape, Stalking, and Grief

alreads13's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

_artemis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Color me intrigued as to where this story was going, but so much of it was setting up the world building and alluding to the fact that we as reader wont be confused about it one day. Like --> see this sentence here. I'd understand it one day. Which is great and all, but I was surprised to leave this book as clueless as to what is going on (at all) as I did on page one.

Definitely a lot of Celtic fantasy serving as the anchor of the fantasy structure, but set in contemporary times. It was written in 2006, so some of the more "modern" elements of the story have a way of dating themselves (ipods, nokia cellphones, Juicy fashion brand name drops). 

There is a hint of the spice I can imagine to come... tho the brief glimpses we get of that thus far are crypitic, and disturbing, at best right now. 

My interest is piqued for this series, however. I will be proceeding to the next book and tying a lot of whether I'll see it through to the end on that alone. 

Writing was definitely pretty good, but suffers from a very immature narrator POV.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Stalking, and Sexual violence

roseamillerg's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? No

2.0

The main character is so ignorant🤦‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Medical trauma, Murder, Stalking, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia