Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Verblendung by Stieg Larsson

26 reviews

kristen_monique's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Dementia, and Murder

Minor: Car accident

boogiebeez's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

this shit insane

• I never read mystery but this was actually very good!
•  definetly was a good book to make into a movie cause the dialogue in the book feels like a movie script.
• I 🖤 lisbeth salander
• i feel like I'm probably not gonna read the other books in the series but you never know 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, and Abortion

theatomicblonde22's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual content

alpaca254's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident

creepy_little_thing's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Antisemitism, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, and Grief

theuncannydani's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Gun violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Dementia, and Kidnapping

Minor: Ableism, Biphobia, Bullying, Cancer, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Police brutality, Abortion, Lesbophobia, War, and Classism

zamnabatool01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Violence, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

aserra's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

Not much to add that hasn't been said before. To summarize:

• Slow start
• Michael Blomkvist falls into the trope of middle aged white man with suspiciously impressive sexual prowess
• There's a weird amount of description and focus on Salander's body...
• Interesting mystery
• Some people seem to really dislike the writing but, honestly, it's far from the worst I've ever read (it's also far from the best, but it's not terrible y'all)

Personally, despite a lot of tired tropes and my misgivings, I was intrigued enough by the end to continue to book 2, but that's because I already had it. If I didn't, I wouldn't have gotten it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, and Car accident

Minor: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, and Murder

macy_w28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

Very well written book but has some very awful things that are talked about sometimes in quite a bit of detail that is quite hard to read at times but despite this the ending still managed to make me want to read the second one. But If you do not want to read about sexual assault, murder, torture or violence in general then I will not recommend you read this book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Car accident

Minor: Cursing

ivana's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The mystery in this book didn't pull me in like I hoped it would. The writing style wasn't for me either - it felt like big parts filled with exposition followed by big parts filled with dialogue and it never felt cohesive. Not to mention the typical male protagonist written by a man who every woman can't help but want to sleep with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Transphobia and Abortion