Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Embassytown by China Miéville

4 reviews

hedsek's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Overall, I enjoyed this book because of its creativity and nice writing style. The POV character provides a really interesting view on the world as, especially in the beginning, she's not that involved or interested in things so we just get glimpses. I have some issues with continuity and a few things that don't entirely make sense or where the solution to a really big problem kind of just appears out of nowhere. But in general, an interesting read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Self harm, War, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Murder, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical content, Body horror, Slavery, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Gun violence

Minor: Religious bigotry, Sexual content, and Homophobia

msawyer77's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, War, Torture, Suicide, Xenophobia, Self harm, Violence, Death, and Gore

applepieandeve's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Good plot, but I found the prose often dense (which I suppose does make sense as this is a book about communicating with aliens) and I needed the dictionary more than once. 
Overall a good read, but compared to some of  authors other work (eg Kraken) not as engaging - does pick up in the final quarter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Addiction, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Murder, Grief, Death, and Colonisation

caseythereader's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, and War

Moderate: Homophobia