Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

14 reviews

alexm_20's review

adventurous dark funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

This was such an easy and mysterious book! I read this as a buddy read, even though the person I’m buddy reading with hasn’t read it yet… She is going to read it soon though, so we’re going to discuss the book next week or so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Gore, Transphobia, and Torture

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Eating disorder

amazelan's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

j'ai ADORÉ, c'est un remix d'Alice au pays des Merveilles mais en beaucoup + sombre et intriguant, et juste en globalement mieux.
les personnages sont intéressants et très relatable, et c'est un peu frustrant de pas en avoir appris + sur elleux
l'écriture est incroyable aussi, c'est une nouvelle donc c'est court mais j'ai eu l'impression d'avoir lu un roman avec plus de pages tellement l'univers l'histoire et tout est bien ficelé
et puis juste l'ambiance du livre est incroyable, le mix fantastique-thriller version YA est parfait là

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content, Eating disorder, Animal death, and Torture

meleigh's review

2.75

This was a great concept but the ending fell flat, and the gore was a bit much for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Eating disorder, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

pandora_rose_reads's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Transphobia, Bullying, and Acephobia/Arophobia

anna_brawn's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Blood, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death and Transphobia

Minor: Eating disorder

ksmith_23's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Dysphoria, and Murder

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Torture, Transphobia, and Cursing

readingthief's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Death, Bullying, Violence, Transphobia, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Animal cruelty, and Deadnaming

maeverose's review against another edition

4.0

I love the concept of focusing on people who’ve returned from portal worlds rather than discovering the portal world, and how they cope with that. The worldbuilding is really cool. I like how they explain the different ‘directions’ and types of worlds and how they work. You can tell a lot of thought went into this.

The actual plot was just okay for me. I’m not really a murder mystery person. But the writing, worldbuilding, (some of) the characters, and learning about how the school works made up for it.

Unfortunately this was bordering on too gory for me. I’m squeamish about that stuff and I had to skim some parts. Annoyingly I’m the most interested in learning about Jack and Jill’s world, because I love a gothic setting, especially if there are vampires. But I’m betting that one’s even gorier… :/ I am gonna try to continue though.

Would also love to get to see Nancy’s world, but I’m guessing we won’t 😖

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Gore, Murder, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Eating disorder and Bullying

Minor: Vomit, Sexual content, and Ableism

Specific gore descriptions:

a body with missing hands (bloody), a body with missing eyes (a crow.. enjoys this. It’s also described in much more graphic detail during an autopsy), a body getting dissolved in acid (mostly happens off page but not entirely), a body thats found missing a brain (i skipped over that so idk how descriptive it was, but not very I don’t think) plus some more less graphic stuff

books4em's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.25

Loved this little book, will be picking up the rest of the series! My only complaint was there was a lot of high level vocabulary that I had to look up, and there were a few scenes or segways that felt very rushed through. That being said, it was a very interesting introduction to this world and series. I found each character unique and intriguing, and I appreciated that they all had different stories for the doors they walked into (whether I liked them or not). Loved the diversity too - ace/aro and trans main characters. Look forward to continuing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Murder, Torture, Gaslighting, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Outing

Minor: Deadnaming, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

moonchildjuli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Blood, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Transphobia, and Vomit