Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Jackal by Erin E. Adams

104 reviews

macleanbridie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Toxic friendship, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Stalking, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, and Alcohol

dustghosts's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Overall, I really enjoyed reading this— easy to devour and I found myself hanging on to the mystery. The writing style struck a strange balance between being too straightforward (telling not showing, as the phrase goes 🙄) and too vague, which left me a bit unsure at the beginning. The story and themes feel big, ambitious, like they are tackling a lot of different, lived aspects of classism, racism, and misogynoir at once— some more successfully than others. I actually quite liked the supernatural aspects, here— my only complaint being that I think the author could have left them more open-ended/vague, as I think what lets that part down is the same aspect I mentioned earlier (too clean to be unclear, too vague to be satisfying). This is a bit of a romp and appropriately troubling and thoughtprovoking throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Hate crime, Child death, Toxic friendship, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, Classism, Gaslighting, Blood, Violence, Vomit, Misogyny, and Grief

mlewis's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Gore, Racism, Alcohol, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit, Body shaming, and Rape

traa's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Grief, Racism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pedophilia, Vomit, Rape, and Eating disorder

Minor: Slavery and Cannibalism

emzhay's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Gore, Murder, Racism, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual content

terrik_409's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

This is a very dark book. Chilling and not for those deeply affected by violence against children.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, and Child death

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

szyca's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Classism, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Death, Grief, and Blood

literarylion's review against another edition

It felt like Adams doesn't trust the reader to locate clues, so she makes their significance painfully obvious, which sucks the mystery out of the plot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Stalking, Grief, Racism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Gore, and Child death

Moderate: Blood

keenanmaree's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Animal death, Death, Hate crime, Racism, Blood, Kidnapping, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

mmccombs's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

An incredibly engaging novel that I think could have benefited from a bit of editing down. I was hooked from the start and wanted to race through it to figure out what was happening. But there were lots of random plot points that served as red herrings, but it just drew the plot out to a frustrating degree. Let me get through this book!! I wanna know! The ending also just kinda got… weird, which I enjoyed but feel a bit confused about. I’m unsure if I could explain the ending or connect all of the dots. Ultimately it was fun (and by fun I mean the pace, the mystery, and the strong energy of the prose, the subject matter is obviously very heavy and can be a bit brutal) despite some things I didn’t enjoy as much, so I’d recommend for a supernatural murder mystery that gets twisty and explores race and racism in the US.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, Child death, and Kidnapping