Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

24 reviews

kerrygetsliterary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Vomit, and War

Minor: Animal death

claudia_bow's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Torture

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Excrement, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content

spellboundchapters's review against another edition

dnf p.156/288
I don't think this is a bad book, it just wasn't for me !
The beginning of the story was really fast and I was really enjoying it, even though I wished that it went a little slower. But then I hit a point where everything felt very slow and repetitive. All the characters outside of Pheby seemed one dimensional.
There was also a lot of graphic violence and I felt like I was just reading a succession of rape scenes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Excrement, and Vomit

roemsy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Incredibly well-written and heartbreaking. The content warnings are abundant with this one. I was moved to tears. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence