Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Snowman by Jo Nesbø

17 reviews

nieva098's review

dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Blood, Murder, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, and Death

tweedlesmart's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

laurenleigh's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I’m getting to the end of the year where I have random reading challenge prompts left, and this was my pick for Nordic Noir. I love a mystery detective novel, but the super dark, explicit, gritty quality to Nordic Noir just turns me off. Maybe I just wasn’t enjoying it, but it also felt like there could have been some editing. They are certain they found the culprit like five times before they actually solve the case.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Gore, Murder, and Body horror

itsjadenbaby's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

This was simply not a book for me. The amount of times I started and stopped reading was absurd. It was really giving me reading slump vibes. However, if I’m going to say something positive about it (and I will since I know some people would and have eaten this book up) it would be that the author is very creative. I haven’t read murders like this before. Nor have I read a plot or reasoning for killing like this before! I don’t think that makes up for how convoluted and confusing the whole plot and story structure was, but it’s something.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Suicide attempt, and Misogyny

Minor: Gun violence

danajoy's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Grief, and Mental illness

cat_demon's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

ruthmoog's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

3.0

My favourite thing about this was descriptions of Norway, specifically Bergen - the rainiest city in Europe - and Oslo - even the Kon Tiki museum gets a mention! - and Flåm too. Although, these are the scene for some grizzly unusual murders in the book.

Harry is an anti-hero, living with addiction and a dual reputation as a great detective and a terrible detective. He is fixated on sex and this seems to impact on all his relationships with women, and this feels like a book written from a male perspective.

There are lots of sub-plots which are parallels, eg the difference between Mathias and Rakels reactions to infedelity, the relationship to Norway's African communities through the shop and the unofficial medical clinic and the relationship with racism and popularity.
But mostly there are so many clunky absurd happenings, from the symbolic snowmen, the surreal action-movie montents from Harry, the mould man, the super clever detective moments juxtaposed with the super stupid detective moments... Argh.

Anyway, I thought it was good but not amazing. The murders were creative and horrible. I felt it would make a good movie, so I will probably watch the film interpretation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Incest, Violence, Death of parent, Body shaming, Body horror, Blood, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Domestic abuse, Torture, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicide, Bullying, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Cursing, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Stalking and Child abuse

Medical ethics abuse, stealing of personal data

fallandfox's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

O inspetor Harry Hole começa a investigar um assassino psicopata chamado o Boneco de neve que sempre ataca no primeiro dia de neve e tem que lidar com as reviravolta que o caso e sua vida levam por causa dele.
Esse livro foi um presente do meu namorado <3 , é que presente maravilhoso! Esse livro tinha um ponto que eu gosto em livros de investigações que é quando o autor não trata o leitor como um imbecil.
Eu não entrei com expectativas nesse livro principalmente porque eu decidi entrar nele com somente oque estava escrito de descrição no livro e fiquei ate surpresa quando descobri que era uma seria quando terminei a leitura e verifiquei no perfil do autor por outros livros porque ele é um livro que conseguiu se manter em pé sozinho.
Esse é gênero que eu já sou acostumada a ler a muito tempo então fiquei muito feliz em ter um novo favorito para reler quando quiser (principalmente por ser físico e eu querer fazer umas marcações agora que sei como termina).

Eu gostei bastante da escrita do autor, ele consegue fazer as descrições obscuras do caso, mudar para o romance de certas cenas e depois se jogar na depressão do Harry de uma forma fluida.
Foi uma escrita facil de ler, eu não senti um cansaço muito grande quando pude passar um período longo de tempo imersa na leitura dele.
Harry Hole é o nosso personagem principal um investigador policial com um passado envolvido pelo alcoolismo e a captura de um serial killer, no momento em que começamos o livro vemos alguém extremamente destrutivo que passa por experiências do seu vicio.
Podemos observar o relacionamento com a sua ex Raquel e o filho dela Oleg com o Harry em conjunto com o novo namorado da Raquel formando um núcleo familiar meio bagunçado mas existente.
Uma personagem importante introduzida no núcleo de trabalho do Harry é a Katrine Bratt que veio transferida de outro setor e esta disposta a aprender o quanto puder com o Harry.

O livro foi ambientado na Noruega (especificamente em Oslo na maior parte do tempo) com muitas cenas evolvendo a neve nas investigações. As descrições dos locais da investigação e ate mesmo do apartamento que se tornou decadente do Harry ajudaram a manter o clima pesado do livro e depressivo em momentos com os desaparecimentos.

Eu recomendo bastante esse livro para quem curte uma investigação de crime inteligente. Estou bem animada para procurar os outros livros principalmente por saber que posso ler eles fora de ordem podendo facilitar minha procura deles!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

nila'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism

joewooley's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism