Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Terror by Dan Simmons

44 reviews

nikkiacat's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Homophobia, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

hellebore's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Murder

theleppy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Torture and Vomit

Minor: Homophobia

sheryl_macca's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

The Terror is a long, slow, indulgent and infuriating read. A historical arctic expedition of 2 ships find themselves stranded with depleted stores and a mystical monster ready to pick them off violently, one by one every time they leave the ships.

The men are stubborn, fool hardy and disrespectful of the ice. They were infuriating in their inability to learn, change or adapt.

The Thing, the monster of the ice was more ominous and sinister than frightening or thrilling.

The level of detail is annoyingly obsessive and the average sentence length is the longest I've ever known.

I found this arduous but I feel triumphant for getting through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder