Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

9 reviews

torismazarine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

sugarbucky's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

Very long, very emotional, but worth the journey. It stuck with me for months, I reference the plot and characters almost daily!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Medical content, Animal death, Violence, and Death

cosmicpanda's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Murder, Suicide attempt, Ableism, Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

shadowspinner's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, and Car accident

erinmjustice's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Gore

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Self harm

falchionm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Stalking, Gore, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Child abuse

aromarrie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

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

5.0

this book carved out a piece of me that i don’t think i’ll ever want to take back….i’ll remmeber this story forever 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Medical trauma

katkinslee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

Super weird but I bloody love it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, and Suicide

katiemack's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

 I received this as an eARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is deeply horrifying, but I didn't expect it to be so wry and...romantic? It's horror first and foremost, but there's some tenderness within Nick and Sam's relationship that I didn't expect.

As much as Sam frustrated me, I quite enjoyed him and his relatable defense mechanism (i.e., using humor as deflection). I wish we had spent more time with his sister, Julia, especially after that traumatizing start to the book, but it was still an epic, supernatural, car-crash of a journey as Nick, Sam, and another character or two try to piece together exactly what the hell happened to Nick's face after his perilous journey up the Maudit. (If you know any French, this should tell you exactly what kind of mountain the Maudit is.)

Do you like alpinism, Stephen King, Dutch novels, or all of the above? Pick this up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Suicide, Murder, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, and Blood

Minor: Sexual content