Reviews tagging 'Gore'

All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

11 reviews

brooklyn0426's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Torture, Gore, Death, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment and Child abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Kidnapping

readwithsophsx's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, and Gore

bookishfoxes's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

I am numb after reading this. Wow. Once again a masterpiece with plottwists I did not see coming. Every time I think I've got it figured out, something else happenss. Wow. Amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse, Stalking, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Body horror, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol

savreads28's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Grief, Body horror, Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Violence

asipofcozy's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I am now completely invested in this series. I honestly did not think that I would enjoy it as much as I am. It's not a perfect series by any means. It's YA and does have some of the pitfalls of YA literature - YA tropes, plot holes, classic YA romances, and so on. However, that doesn't distinguish the fact that this series is entirely addictive. I find myself turning the pages faster and faster, like me watching Criminal Minds over and over again.

Also, I just want to say I called that ending! Specifically the ending of a plot line we have been following for sometime. I won't say what but I called it at the end of book one and now I am seeing it flourish. Should I have been able to guess it no, but it was still exhilarating.

My one complaint and one that I might not have caught if I have not watched Criminal Minds 100x over, is that the author does copy/slightly plagiarize an entire scene from a criminal minds episode almost scene by scene and parts of the phrases as well. The only reason I caught it was because I just watched the episode during my annual Criminal Minds rewatch. That scene being

from the Masterpiece episode where Spencer Reid discover's the fabonacci sequence is a key to a map that will show where the victims are. This scene is almost a mirror of the scene within All In where Sloane is doing the same thing with drawing the map out. Also Barnes constantly uses the word "Perfection" and "seeing Perfection". This is the exact verbiage that The Professor uses within the CM episode as well

. I am all for inspiration but not blatant copying. 

I am very excited to get into Bad Blood next! I need to see if my hypothesis's are correct.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Murder, Blood, and Self harm

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

kaitlynnnng's review

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

What was that ending?! This entire review contains spoilers. After finishing the first and second books, I’d been telling people that I appreciated how each story had been wrapped up…but all of that went out the window with this book!

This book might be my favorite in the series so far because it wasn’t as easy to put my finger on the true identify of the UNSUB. There were many more twists and turns.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gore, Abandonment, Blood, and Grief

vj_thompson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Blood, Torture, Death, Death of parent, and Body horror

Moderate: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, and Stalking

ashleynp24's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Stalking, Blood, Domestic abuse, Murder, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

gigihopkins's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death, and Death of parent

mrsalexisrjones's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Book three draws you in and keeps you reading! I had to intentionally take breaks because my mind was racing as I tried to solve the case before the book ended!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, Stalking, Blood, Self harm, and Mental illness

Minor: Child abuse