Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Dukkehuset by M.J. Arlidge

4 reviews

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Fast paced, thrilling, short chapters. I just sometimes find the characters to be missing something. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

twinnem_rach's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity

capucapulet's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

constancethereader's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Third book in the Helen Grace series and this one may be my favorite. I flew through it and finished it in a day and enjoyed the stuff going on outside of the case because it was just so dramatic, but the case was also wild. Arlidge does a good job of making her chapters short so I keep saying, “okay just one more chapter” because they’re usually no more than 6 pages total but I just can’t stop. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Incest