Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales

8 reviews

vireogirl's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

Camping book #3. Weirdly odd, with strange characters, jarring footnotes. If you can consider it a farce, it does move along and pull you in. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

bessadams's review

funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, and Classism

silver_valkyrie_reads's review

funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

This book was only mostly agreeable for me. 

It started off strong, with clear homages to Jane Austen, without trying to replicate her style. (I could have imagine Austen reading this book with chuckle, in fact.)

My usual annoyance with complaints about the harsh social restrictions of the Regency world was abrogated by clearly making these harsh restrictions in an alternate history and so over the top as to be amusing.

Things started to peter out toward the end though... The societal complaints took on a more generic feminist flavor, and in general the characters devolved a bit towards being just the usual you'd expect from any Regency knockoff.

I found the character arcs to be completely predictable (including who must turn out to be the murderer) but found the other mysterious elements actually baffling until revealed, which was rather fun.

Overall, worth reading if you love good writing and witty humor, as long as you don't mind a weak ending.

(Also, this is probably just a personal thing, but I found the references to snot and saliva needlessly icky and gross.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy

growintogardens's review

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

4.75

Was this completely silly? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Also yes. It's good fun and had me wishing there was a pile of them to read next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

kayschwe's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy

atamano's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Sexism, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Infidelity, Racism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

larareads's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexism, Kidnapping, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Xenophobia and Lesbophobia

mtnest's review

funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism