Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Family Business by Jonathan Sims

9 reviews

reginacattus's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Drug use, Grief, Terminal illness, Violence, Confinement, and Death

hcneysuckle's review

dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Torture, Violence, Grief, Body horror, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child death, Cancer, Classism, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

caitlind14's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, Gore, and Death of parent

ladybanecourt's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

✨5/5✨

First Johnny Sims book I read and, as a fan of The Magnus Archives, I have to say the writing still impresses me a lot! This is such a good book, and the characters??? The plot???

The Mr. Bill reveal???

Also, Xen was my favorite don't @ me.

I am definitely in love with this, would love to read it again for spooky season next year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cursing, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent and Gore

misszoe's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Murder, Child death, Death, Police brutality, Violence, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Gore, and Addiction

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Bullying

gracecrandall's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Murder, Gore, Confinement, Grief, Mental illness, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Physical abuse, Blood, and Classism

emflipspages's review

dark mysterious fast-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

3.75

I liked this book, I'm a sucker for Jonny Sims and his use of patterns and categories in horror. But this book got a little bit repetitive sometimes, as if only the relevant happenings in the plot line were piled on top of each other, and the resolution wasn't as satisfying as it could have been (the solution came somewhat suddenly and there were still a lot of unanswered questions at the end). Still, the writing style, the characters and the story itself are completely brilliant, and you bet I'll be looking out for the rest of Jonny's work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, Grief, Stalking, and Death

Moderate: Addiction and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture, Cancer, and War

jan_coco_day's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Sims is a master at slow-paced horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gore, Grief, Abandonment, Violence, Death, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Vomit, and Body horror

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Bullying

proceduralbob's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Murder, and Violence