Reviews tagging 'Gore'

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nrogers_1030's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cursing, Blood, Gore, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Confinement, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and War

unluckycat13's review against another edition

dark hopeful fast-paced

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

3.0

The book is overall a pretty enjoyable supernatural horror. It avoids a lot of the tropes of both the slasher and battle royale genre. A lot of the characters are surprisingly likable even when they are a bit less educated on things like LGBT issues or race which is rare in fiction in general. The main thing that takes this down for me is the ending is so drawn out and unresolved. It still felt like Mac was 'deferring responsibility' in her solution so to speak, when taking responsibility was such a main part of her arc. A lot of the ending feels like it was making things up as it went along. 

It was a strong point for me that it wasn't a gross book despite being horror. Overall decent. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Child abuse

Moderate: Gore

ezwolf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

This was kind of like Cabin in the Woods meets the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. But queer and with a dash of found family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Gore, Violence, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, and Sexism

traa's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Classism, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Gore, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Suicide, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Medical content, Infidelity, Medical trauma, War, Self harm, and Racial slurs

nnylelocin's review

dark emotional reflective tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Gore, Murder, and Physical abuse

nithya_natalya's review

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

4.0

Queer horror that centers on one of the things that I love about horror - how hopeful it can be, even in the bleakest of situations. It's a genre that is such a testament to how hard people are willing to fight just to live. Also, this really reminded me of Severance by Ling Ma. Very different style, but a similar critique of late stage capitalism, and the idea that younger gens must suffer, but also be grateful for the horrors created by greed. If you are fed up with your capitalist overlords, this is definitely a cathartic read. 

My only struggle with this was that the author writes in third person omniscient and switches perspectives without chapter or page breaks. So on the same page, you'll get the thoughts and feelings of multiple different characters. Especially when first being introduced to the characters, being in one person's thoughts and then suddenly another's was a bit of whiplash and just generally confusing because there were so many characters to get to know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, and Confinement

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Grief, Gore, Ableism, Racism, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

furiosa_2193's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

leligavi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

3.25

I enjoyed this book! I loved the multiple POV from each contestant. I thought that was really clever and really well executed. I mean the team we got at the end was just unexpected but so lovable. I love Brandon and all that he is. This was a case where (unlike the last book I read, Never Lie) there was a twist that was cleverly sprinkled in before the reveal and it made the story that much more intriguing and dynamic.

The back cover tells you that this is definitely some sort of monster, but the discovery of the notebook WHICH WAS HINTED AT BEING IMPORTANT FOR A WHILE shows a twist that only enhances your feelings as a reader.

It wasn't a super deep read or anything, but I thought it was a lot of fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Murder

mosshaunt'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

2.5

reads like a YA novel written for adults. if you're like me and personally don't like typical YA writing conventions, keep that in mind.

too many characters, not enough time to meet them. lots of infodumps and while i didn't mind the first journal, the second journal and verbal exposition bloated the story for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

Minor: Lesbophobia, Ableism, Animal death, and Racism

One character's entire backstory deals with ritual/cult abuse. I would consider it moderate to graphic.

snaggy95's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

3.0

The concept of murderous hide & seek is always intriguing & this book was enjoyable enough. I only gave it 3 stars because it irks me when characters happen to stumble across something that spells everything out for them. It's the cliche of the villain telling the victim their master plan & ultimately ruining things for themselves because of it. Some of the characters were annoying, but that's okay because they're meant to be. The dynamic between characters is fun to see unfold & it raises the stakes to see who, if any, of them make it out alive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Child death, Blood, Murder, Suicide, Abandonment, Animal death, Violence, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse