Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

93 reviews

princessmud's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

kier__'s review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Violence, Gore, Blood, Death, Excrement, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Car accident, Cancer, and Terminal illness

cowboylatte's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.0

Cannot recommend enough that you listen to the audiobook instead of read this chilling, brilliant piece of horror. I don't think I could have handled the main character otherwise. The audiobook made her transition from unbearable to final girl standing soooo much more emotional and engaging. I couldn't sleep, I was looking into dark corners but I could NOT finish it fast enough. 

If you're looking for an engaging, character driven, maddening, furious, vivid and at times horrific depiction of the human condition under impossible odds, I beg you to give this a listen! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Eating disorder

mr_ryancowboy's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Animal death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: War and Eating disorder

Minor: Vomit

Natural disaster features prominently

haley_mil_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Gore, Death, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Genocide and Toxic relationship

corallydeer's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

This was a pretty good book in my opinion! I haven't read any of Brooks' other works, but my husband has which is why we picked this up to read together. I'm normally not a horror reader so that was definitely a bit of a hurdle for me but this was more gore and body horror once it really picked up (although that's usually worse for me than horror). I still finished, though, and with fairly minimal flinching and eye-closing! The writing was really well done and the format was interesting and organized well.

Dan and Mostar's deaths made me legitimately sad

; I loved them as characters.

I do agree that for such a short book it has a slow start and took a while to get to the horror and gore, but once we got there we were into it and didn't want to put it down. We read in tandem with the audiobook and that was done masterfully as well with all the different narrators (love Nathan Fillion!).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Cursing and Grief

Minor: Medical content

Violence, Death, Gore, and Body Horror

(the entire point of the book is that the characters get massacred by Sasquatch's so their deaths are violent, and gory, and there are clearly described bouts of body horror)

| Cursing

(the characters curse at each other and the Sasquatch's)

| Grief

(since characters die one-by-one the others experience grief and mourning)

| Medical Content

(one of the characters has a heart attack and the other do what they can to treat him with lacking resources)

dslcer's review against another edition

This book was overly bleak and, not quite the scary horror novel I wanted it to be. I DNFed with 30 pages left, but I couldn’t bring myself to finish it.

Additionally, the author seems to espouse certain conservative convictions throughout the book, which is fine, but not my cup of tea.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Animal death

Moderate: Body horror and Blood

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Violence

terrik_409's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Domestic abuse

laurenmiller100's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

3.75

This is a brutal book. I really enjoyed this story, and the characters and their arcs are fascinating. The way the town devolves as they try to fight off the creatures is horrifying. Moreover, some of the descriptions of violence or death had me wincing while listening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Stalking, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Blood, Death, Body horror, and Excrement

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: War

ehagedorn's review against another edition

adventurous tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence