Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

26 reviews

e_flah's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

The Psychology of Time Travel was a gripping character-driven read. Mascarenhas deftly used the time travel component to make a really fascinating murder mystery that left me constantly revising my theory of who did it. The queer romance was icing on the cake.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Mental illness

hazing

oceanic_rabbit's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

One of my absolute favourite books of all time! Characters are vibrant and the plot is riveting and full with twists, turns, tidbits and clues to keep you interested. Plus a little women in STEM and some light WLW rep to just up the ante a little more!

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Murder

thequiltyreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

cheye13's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Violence, Stalking, and Alcohol

Many mental illnesses are mentioned or alluded to, but the specific illnesses of main characters are PTSD and Bipolar Disorder

mandkips's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, and Racism

falchionm's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

leialou's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Key Themes: 

Mental Health, Grief, Friendship, Death.

Best (or Worst) Moments: 

I found the best moments were those viewed from Audette's POV - just found it more interesting with the murder and mystery solving, and she had an agenda and clear goals which also helped. 

Was this Book What I Expected?: 

No - with it being called ‘the psychology of time travel’ I expected it to focus even more on psychology. I’m an MSc Psychology student so obviously love psychology so I think I would have enjoyed the book even more if it went into more detail about the actual psychology behind it all - not just basic ‘she would have had those mental health problems without time travel’. I know there was some explanation but just felt it wasn’t enough - but maybe that would be too much for someone without a background in psychology? 

Review: 

This book was okay - I enjoyed it but it just wasn’t what I was expecting and it kind of disappointed me as a result. 

Things to Research Further 

The concept of how time travel could impact a person psychologically is so interesting - obviously not applicable until time-travel is a thing but would be such an interesting topic to study. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, and Toxic friendship

adorabug's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death and Mental illness

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious tense 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

5.0

I enjoyed this book. It had a really interesting exploration of time travel and the rules governing travelers. I also thought the characters were interesting and I'm always delighted to find queer representation in random books I pick up. 

📘The Gist 📘: Time travel takes the mystery out of everything, including death. It also makes it possible to solve certain crimes. When a woman in her 80s is murdered in a locked room, her death spawns am investigation that stretches across time. 

📒Representation📒: wlw mc, bipoc mc and sc, senior mc

💕 For readers looking for 💕: interesting time travel, mystery, a touch of romance

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

aardwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

The mystery, worldbuilding, and conceit carry the book to great heights of technical accomplishment. You never figure anything out until a moment before the characters do, but it always makes sense when you get there. The characters themselves are deeply strange, but they're supposed to be.

Dialogue is rather strangely arranged, with paragraph breaks in all the wrong places. Stylistically, this works to make the act of reading a sort of constant time travel itself. You're forever tracking back and forth to figure out who's talking. While it works on a meta level, the affectation does make reading kind of a weird mechanical experience.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail