Reviews tagging 'Blood'

I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

21 reviews

spacehemy's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Blood, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Torture, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Toxic friendship

The main character reminds me of the show Dexter where its main character was a sociopath himself. I think the store does a fine job taking us through John Cleaver’s emotions and tendencies he tries to suppress. Since we are reading in John’s pov certain scenes are graphic and the characters goes into deep detail about then graphics to be warned

lonelylooper's review

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Stalking, Torture, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Violence, Animal death, Gore, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Body horror, and Mental illness

Minor: Misogyny and Suicidal thoughts

illiterad's review against another edition

4.0

makes me feel the way i did about ya fiction when i picked up my first in the genre in elementary school. addictive, fun, edgy enough for a current young adult, and writing solid enough to keep an exciting pace and give you something to chew on at the same time. i had a great time so i just hope the second one is also fun

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Stalking, and Body horror

calamitywindpetal's review against another edition

emotional informative tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Stalking, and Abandonment

Minor: Car accident, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

gerynumbmind's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Mental illness

Moderate: Murder and Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty and Stalking

flip_chester's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Murder, Stalking, and Body horror

Moderate: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Ableism, and Sexism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Self harm, and Animal death

bg_okeyo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.5

The first half of the book was good, love how certain aspects were put out, including the life of a typical emo boy. However, the fantasy aspect of it threw me completely off; Like how do you give a book wings and then deliberately put a tree in front of it?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Body horror

corikane's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

eternallyunsatisfied's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Violence, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Kidnapping, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

cheye13's review

dark tense 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

3.0

Gave me exactly what I wanted and expected from it. A quintessential YA horror/thriller. The reviews complaining about the demon turn the story takes missed some very heavy-handed "hints" (they were direct statements) early in the book.

Initially I was uncomfortable with the depiction of sociopathy, but as the story carried on and it seemed more intentional, it made more sense. I can't claim that it's good sociopathy representation, especially given the year it was published, but at the very least it seemed more sensitive than offhand comments that are still tossed around nowadays.

Honestly, I didn't expect that this series would be for me, but I'm now considering continuing, especially if I can get ahold of audiobooks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Ableism, Blood, Death, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Body horror, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, Self harm, Abandonment, and Bullying

ableism about psychotic/sociopathic disorders, both external and internal; a couple brief but detailed scenes of voyuerism; extremely detailed scenes of mortuary business/handling of corpses