Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders by Patrick Süskind

32 reviews

amelody's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Classism, Sexism, and Murder

Minor: Stalking, Sexual content, Misogyny, Violence, Gore, and Mental illness

bitchigo's review against another edition

dark tense 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? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Cannibalism, Torture, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

goldenlake's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Stalking, Violence, Classism, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Body horror, and Sexual violence

linnea1801's review

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

1.5

If I didn’t have to read this for school I would have dropped it a few chapters in. The main character was so despicable that it hurt every time he got away with something.

Spoiler

It was also extremely infuriating that all the victims were CHILDREN and they were still very sexualised

However, the way that scent was described was very intriguing. In my opinion it was overdone in the middle section, but especially in the beginning it was interesting. All in all I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone but it definitely wasn’t the worst book I was forced to read for school.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Cannibalism, Death, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Incest, Misogyny, and Racial slurs

caitc90's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille known as Grenouille was born in 1738 in the gutters of a fish stall and tossed aside. He was born without a scent, every woman who cared for him noticed it. Although he was born without a scent, he had the most incredible sense of smell, he could smell where you came from, what you ate for lunch yesterday wearing the same outfit, he could differentiate between the scent of clear glass and green glass. No one was capable of smelling the way Grenouille was. Even with his tremendous smelling ability it wasn’t until he was in his 20s and isolated himself from humanity that he realised he himself was scentless. After this realisation he set off to make the perfect perfume.

Part one of the book gave me such a creepy crawly feeling I didn’t know if I would continue reading the book. I think as a mother myself the scent of your baby is such a particular scent, to think of a baby that didn’t have one felt so strange and uncomfortable. The description of him as a child creeped me out so badly and the way his actions were explains it made me stop reading a couple times. 

After the initial grossed out-ness, part two of the book was pretty slow. I was expecting more murder because of the title. It was part 3 that got me interested in the book again, when he came out of isolation and went back to making perfumes.The ending of part 3 was not what I expected but it was funny to imagine. 

The end of the book was perfect, I couldn’t think of a better way to end it. I’m not a fan of historical fiction but I thought it sounded interesting, also there’s a movie to watch too so I thought it would be an enjoyable read. I’m glad I read it but I think I’ll likely stay away from historical fiction for awhile.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

lindevlh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

“Het parfum” is een zeer zorgvuldig  geschreven psychologische thriller dat zich afspeelt in de 18de eeuw, specifieker de vieze, stinkende en de rijke straten van Parijs. Hij opent een nieuwe manier van denken in je brein. Je gaat op een rollercoaster van emoties: ervaar verdriet, woede, eenzaamheid, avontuur,, wanhoop en pijn. Vreugde, opluchting, hoop en vrede. Het boek maakte me zo kwaad dat ik alle personages levend wou begraven, maar soms kon je niet anders dan empathie voelen met elk personage. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Miscarriage, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and War

marialenov's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

anhedonia_n_anomie's review against another edition

It had a very interesting start, and is absolutely very well-written, but it just became an unpleasant read—for me—after a certain point.
The book is a slow-burner—so takes a while to get to the meat of the plot—and with the main character being this inhuman creature (so to speak) who doesn't engage with anyone else in the story, doesn't speak, doesn't have much of an inner life (outside of what his superpowered olfactory sense brings to him), and who is just constantly behaving incredibly revoltingly—I just couldn't stick it out until things started going somewhere.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, and Blood

kamenje's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

vrlo zanimljiv koncept, pomalo se odugovlači i ima za moj ukus previše opisa tih svih mirisa i procesa i čega sve ne, ali su jako lijepo opisani, i’ll give it that. jako je disturbing u nekim dijelovima i baš sam bila kao wtf??? ali u redu

kraj je malo weird

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism, Murder, and Stalking

mysbct's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Sexual assault, Animal death, and Physical abuse