Reviews tagging 'Murder'

We Were Kings by Court Stevens

10 reviews

thewellreadlabrador's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Child death, Suicide, Gun violence, Addiction, and Death

Minor: Domestic abuse, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Trafficking

whatthekatdraggedin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.0

Some of the twists are pretty predictable. The overall mystery seems to have a lot of plot holes and some parts of it make no sense. I didn't find the characters particularly believable or fleshed out, they seemed to act randomly and out of character all the time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Trafficking, Gun violence, and Drug abuse

hollyk's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This just got messy and overly confusing in the end, the reveal was rushed and the setting was also haphazardly described.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Stalking, Trafficking, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Gun violence, Cancer, and Infidelity

chaotically_katie's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Dementia, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Trafficking, Terminal illness, Vomit, Child death, Body horror, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Cultural appropriation and Confinement

breeohmai's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This is a must read!! I wasn’t sure where the story was going when I first started reading it, but this book takes you down a mysterious road of who committed the crime that definitely pulls you in!

We follow Nyla king as she discovers a big mystery about her family and how they are all somehow involved in this mystery of lies revolving who killed Cora King.. Her moms best friend Frankie has 30 final days to live and Nyla decides to dive in and try to figure out what really happened 20 years ago with her family. 

This was a awesome thriller and great mystery read. I loved that Nyla was so set on telling the world what really happens and finding out the real truth. This book takes you down many twist and turns till you finally figure out what happened!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Trafficking and Child abuse

beckyremillard's review against another edition

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? No

4.5

Nyla’s mother’s (Beth) best friend, Frankie, is in prison for murdering Beth’s sister, Cora. But Beth doesn’t think Frankie did it and a new law makes it so Frankie is to be executed in 30 days. Nyla (accidentally) makes a YouTube channel in order to help prove Frankie’s innocence. 

Nyla is a tenacious character, really determined to prove Frankie’s innocence and growing more determined which each piece of evidence she finds. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Trafficking, Violence, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Blood, and Suicide

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

disnelyse's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

5.0

Would definitely recommend to anyone who likes true crime! Plenty of twists and turns to keep it going.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Addiction and Suicide

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Gun violence, and Violence

librariangeorgia's review

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? It's complicated

4.0

Wow, what a fantastic book!

I blitzed through this in one sitting.

It’s full of twists and turns that keep you guessing - and they did keep me guessing right to the very end.

I thought I knew what was going to happen but I couldn’t have been more wrong!

Highly recommend this book to mystery/thriller lovers!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Trafficking, Addiction, Drug use, and Gun violence

abbennsky's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

2.25

I really did want to know what happened at the core of this mystery, otherwise I definitely would have DNF’d it

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking and Murder

Minor: Addiction and Suicide

theoceanrose's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Violence, and Gun violence