Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

5 reviews

emmagreenwood's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Abandonment, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Torture, Excrement, Gore, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Physical abuse, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Racial slurs, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, War, and Xenophobia

mine_gerber's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Murder, War, and Excrement

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, and Torture

sapphire_mayo's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Violence, War, and Torture

Moderate: Rape, Excrement, Death of parent, Sexual violence, and Colonisation

ghost_rider's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Murder, Grief, War, Death, Gore, Rape, and Body horror

Minor: Excrement

innastholiel's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

I’m a little torn about this one, to be honest. I really enjoyed the writing, it’s very compelling (God’s truth, repetitive though it is). But what I don’t enjoy is the weirdly objectifying sexual imagery. Like, I get it, the trench is your home and because your mommy left when you were a kid you think of it as a womb, so you think of its entrance as a vagina, but still. It’s weird without really making a point. I really would like to pretend that there is a legitimate reason for including this imagery that I’m too dumb to understand because I’m not a literary academic, and I want to pretend that this isn’t just — to bring my own gratuitous sexual metaphor into it — society having a boner for objectifying women and seeing them suffering. Of course both of those things could be true, but if it’s only one of them, I think we all know which one is the more likely candidate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, War, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Mental illness

Moderate: Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Torture, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Excrement and Colonisation