Reviews tagging 'Murder'

La chica de antes by JP Delaney

27 reviews

willow_21_05's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

The plot. The characters. Just everything is amazing the characters development in this book is amazing. I would definately read this book again and would recommend to anyone who likes mystery books and books involving crime. In the beginning the switching between characters but I got used to this pretty quickly. If you cant get into the booktry watching the TV series (Dont know how good this is because ive only just started watching it). Overall this book was very good and there could have been a few more things to make it a 5 star read like when the characters say things it doesnt always have quotation marks and this was also confusing. It was very close to being a 5 star book but it wasnt one of my favourites but very close to it. The plot of the book just keeps getting thicker and thicker and there was always something being uncovered or trying to be figured out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy

georgieg's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, and Murder

latham9's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Stalking

Minor: Abortion

mariareadss367's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual assault

Moderate: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Animal death and Cancer

lindseyrenee's review against another edition

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, and Abortion

herbertem1996's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Murder, and Pregnancy

shereadsmysteries's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder, Vomit, Abortion, and Abandonment

Ableism: Discussions of keeping/terminating a pregnancy where child could be disabled; Abortion: discussion only; Child death: Stillbirth; Rape: False rape allegations

_mack_jack_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.25

it was out best by another review i saw: yet another book choosing to subvert expectations with a nonsensical twist instead of giving the plot and characters the follow-through they earned. this book was a page-turner but ultimately lackluster.

what i wanted from the book initially was to be shocked and to have my expectations subverted. as i learned more about the characters, i wanted to see the natural conclusion come about. i think the author focused on shock value over realism when coming up with plot points. the complexities of the characters, specifically the men, are unexplored to their fullest because the author takes them off course at random. the women are flawed and emotional humans, which is always good to see, but emma specifically is written to be almost a villain as the book progresses. at first it was a captivating twist, but again the path it took broke my suspension of disbelief. 

did i enjoy reading it? yes. would i recommend it? no.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Murder, and Pregnancy

chaoschali's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

sylvestra's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Stalking, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol