Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Sworn Soldier - What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

54 reviews

sammirosewater's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Animal death, Death, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Torture, Terminal illness, Violence, and Stalking

professor_jango's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Chronic illness, Medical content, Suicide, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Violence, and War

alliebliterary's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

etosaurus's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Medical content, Mental illness, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, Confinement, and Eating disorder

kate_mare's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is the definition of a perfect horror book. The plot coudve been predicted but it turned out to be even worse! The writer described the characters pain perfectly and described details in a perfect way. Definitly a 5 star read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Chronic illness, Murder, Animal death, Death, Medical trauma, Body horror, Violence, and War

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, and Addiction

kk_bonton's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Terminal illness, and Blood

Moderate: War, Medical content, Violence, Gore, Death, Suicide, Mental illness, and Gun violence

sarah984's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

This novella is a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher and follows the same broad strokes of that story's plot. This is a horror story and does have some creepy parts, but there's an overall cheerful tone to most of it that makes it a quick easy read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Animal death

Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Gore, Alcohol, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Transphobia, Drug use, Misogyny, War, Vomit, Violence, and Suicide

morganfiona's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This was the perfect horror book for me, not relying too much on triggering topics that are so pervasive in modern horror. I thought the set up of how pronouns were used was inventive and felt natural in the world of story. As a Beatrix Potter fan, I appreciated the nod to her mycological illustrations!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Body horror, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: War

knightreads's review against another edition

dark funny informative mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Animal death, and Body horror

Minor: Grief, Alcohol, War, Violence, Suicide, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Blood and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Murder and Suicide