Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer

40 reviews

readingwithmeredith's review

adventurous dark slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Confinement, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

gabyscozylibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Just finished my reread of this book and I loved it just as much, if not more than the first time. 
I loved revisiting this book because it allowed me to notice things I didn’t the first time I read it and also it reminded me of everything that happened and details I had forgotten. 
This book will always be a favorite of mine.
I’m so stoked to read Defend The Dawn!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Gore, and Death of parent

brooketreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

This was a highly anticipated read for me.

If you’ve heard the sound from Dance Moms of Abby Lee Miller saying, “You were good. I’m waiting for you to be great.” That was my thoughts through this whole book.

It’s labeled fantasy, but I didn’t get that.

The romance angle was sweet. The weird thing is I feel it’s a big part of the story, but it was very subtle.

The plot twists were easy to figure out.

Tessa was sweet but very naive. I wished she had been a little tougher for the life she lived as an outlaw. 

For about the first half of the book I felt it was very dry. Not really engaging me in the story. It felt like it followed a similar plot to plenty of other books I’ve read. The pacing is fast so that helped. The second half really picked up though and I felt more engaged from there. 

It leaves me unsure if I will read book 2.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Chronic illness

rosie2007's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Hate crime, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

forgettingtofly's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

This was a good time.  It kept my attention and definitely had an engaging storyline.  I was drawn in by the characters and their relationships.  The moral dilemmas were well done. The story was somewhat predictable in some moments.  I’m interested to see where it goes in future books.  I thought the audiobook performances were also pretty good.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

mollysbooklist's review

adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I loved this! Great character development and plot. Once I started I didn’t want to stop. I was immediately invested even through the world building. 


The story highlights that life is not always as simple as good vs. bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

lit_with_lauren's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Murder

lujisa's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Torture, Violence, and Murder

zozo_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

Great world building did sort of expect the ending though. There was a plot twist in the beginning that I would have never expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Child death

librarianheaven's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

This has to be one of my biggest favourite books of all time. This was the first book I read when I started getting into reading and book collecting, I cried a lot and the plot twist was great! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Torture, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Chronic illness