Reviews

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

_windupbird's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

bryanjoyce30's review

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

2.75

starsiren's review

challenging dark medium-paced

5.0

jclayhuston78's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

phoebe20's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

theswindler90's review against another edition

Book was too slow

thesholmes's review

dark slow-paced

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

5.0

Holy fuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Torture, Animal death, Sexual violence, Self harm, Pedophilia, Murder, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Body horror, Blood, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Rape, Misogyny, and Excrement

As someone who is fairly desensitised to most anything, this made me physically sick

homosexualbats's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

nataliegracebates's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Loveable characters? No

1.5

This writing was just so incredibly not my style, sorry to say. My mind was wandering every time I tried to read it-- the run on sentences and lack of punctuation were probably the least of my problems with it. The "main" character was hardly a character at all as we learn nothing about him and he almost never speaks. Just endless descriptions of people wandering around the desert killing people and getting dehydrated

nakednames's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

damn.