Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

24 reviews

walrus420's review against another edition

dark mysterious

• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Blood, and Stalking

Minor: Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

nonidude's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Quite pleased with the overall plot and ending. I don't really like any of the characters (except Alice), but I enjoyed the book regardless. It was a quick read for being almost 500 pages - tempo and structure was solid.

One author complaint would be the adjectives. "Medium build" and "nondescript" and "average looking" are a few that come to mind...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident and Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

macliffe's review

adventurous emotional funny slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Stalking

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, and Gaslighting

Minor: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Torture, Medical content, and Kidnapping

jessly's review

funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Child death

tiana_king's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore and Medical content

Minor: Murder

camille_llv's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Questionable writing, very questionable themes, disturbing that I loved this stalking romance so much as a teenager. But still I can't help but relish in the nostalgia and find some of the dialogue odly charming, and the French translation is so outdated and bizarre it just ads something to it.
It still kept me entertained 15 years later and now I'm on my way to read the entire serie! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gore

lisas_novel_idea's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

I kept reading waiting for the actual plot… could have been written in half the page count if eliminated all the extra attraction details, we get it, he’s good looking. Love story part was flat for me, see other notes. Can see why it’s banned. Will not bother with sequels or movie. Highly disappointed. I’m usually a big fan of vampire / human love stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Stalking

I’m all for a good love at first sight trope, but seriously?!

He’s attracted to her because she smells delicious and she’s attracted to him because of his ability to mesmerizing his prey?!

that’s not love, that’s some weird twisted codependency.

lecta's review

funny fast-paced

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

4.0

i am a fan of the movies so finally i decided to read the books. i know what most people think of the books, they say it's terrible so i had low expectations but i loved it. shocking i know but i really enjoyed reading this. now the book isn't perfect i know that but i don't really care i finshed it in one sitting and it was a fun time and i liked how different it was from the movie. also i totally chose to ignore bella being 17 cuz that's jusy creepy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Medical content, and Stalking

Minor: Child death, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

grboph's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

2.5

This is maybe one of the worst books I've ever read. I am legitimately unsure why my eleven-year-old self enjoyed them as much as she did. Probably for the reasons I gave it two and a half stars, which is pure entertainment value and being unintentionally hilarious at times. But seriously, I'm not sure how this book was even published. The writing is terrible, the characters are all incredibly annoying (all for completely different reasons), and Edward and Bella's relationship, which is held up as being romantic and perfect and star-crossed, is actually very toxic and abusive (one of their first ever conversations is just Edward gaslighting the hell out of Bella and it made me quite uncomfortable). This book (and the series) makes an excellent hate-read, and I'm definitely going to be finishing out the series at some point soon. The only people I think I'd seriously recommend this book to are eleven-year-old girls or someone who I really want to confuse. However, I'd recommend it to anybody else looking for something comically bad and cringey to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Violence, Medical content, and Car accident

Minor: Death, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Abandonment

shholmes's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Gore