Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

18 reviews

paperdove's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Vomit and Murder

bookbunnie's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Read this if you’re interested in the histories and abilities of multiple vampire subspecies, love a sweet and simple lovestruck character, and enjoy the classic dynamic of detectives, cops and criminals all being equivalently crooked. 

Don’t read this if you want the elegant prose of ethereal vampire angst, need a lot of character development to be satisfied, or want a villain with substance. 

This book explores the characters’ different relationships to solitude in part by examining their living conditions and in part by their actions taken to preserve, avoid, or accept their loneliness. 

It was a simple and easy read, gritty but not unpalatable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Alcohol, Gore, Death, Death of parent, and Misogyny

Moderate: Gun violence, Police brutality, and Genocide

Minor: Confinement

ruthjenkins's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

The author does a good job creating a rich and diverse world of vampires and narcos, without description impeding the story. There are a few bits of exposition dialogue but they mostly make sense in the context of those characters.
The story is a little slow to get started, since the protagonist is in hiding so isn't doing a huge amount, but when the action gets going it becomes quite tense, and very violent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Vomit, Blood, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Torture

magneto's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Picked this book up because I liked the cover design and love a good vampire book but had no context going in. Wound up really loving it and the multi POV format lent itself well to the story, I never found myself thinking a chapter was useless to the story. The world built up in this novel, with its multiple vampire species and the world political situation that results, was really interesting. Will definitely read this again in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Classism and Vomit

macknificent's review against another edition

dark medium-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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Animal cruelty, and Drug use

aardwyrm's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

There's some law that books in certain genres have to claim to be reinventing or rulebreaking for some reason. This book does not reinvent vampires. It's a fairly straightforward if grim urban fantasy vampire-themed thriller. Like most of the author's stuff, there's a wonderfully built world and a lot of lush prose inhabited by characters who are rather flatly by the book with no chemistry. Fun to read. Good for Halloween?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Vomit, Violence, Trafficking, Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexism, Police brutality, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Death of parent, Death, Blood, and Animal cruelty

womanwill's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gun violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Vomit, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Drug use, Death, Confinement, and Animal cruelty

caidyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

I'm so damn glad this book got reissued! It was a fantastic read that I (pun intended) devoured. The world was so rich and I loved being able to flip back and read on the lore this book incorporated. All in all, I'd read more in this world if possible!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Murder, Vomit, and War