Reviews tagging 'Death'

Gothikana by RuNyx

101 reviews

pastelbread's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Suicide, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, and Death

Minor: Blood, Incest, Dementia, and Torture

Passive parenting, depictions of corpses

kinsportch's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Murder, Suicide, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Dementia

Minor: Incest

openbookheartmind's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, and Death

imcbear's review against another edition

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? Yes

2.0

 I am taking a star off just for the AI cover, because, wtf is that? Hire a cover artist Bramble.

The first half of the book almost had me DNFing it. It is written like the author thought college works like a boarding school.

School bells, semesters, and not being allowed to leave campus. Even though everyone in the book is an adult, they are treated like kids who are not even allowed to call home without faculty permission. Because the signal is so bad, cellphones don't work, and I guess we don't have wifi yet in this story?

The first half of the book almost had me DNFing it. It is written like the author thought college works like a boarding school. School bells, semesters, and not being allowed to leave campus. Even though everyone in the book is an adult, they are treated like kids who are not even allowed to call home without faculty permission. Because the signal is so bad, cellphones don't work, and I guess we don't have wifi yet in this story?

 

The second half of the book was better than the first once I got over my hatred for how the university was set up like a boarding school. In truth, I still am not over that part.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

book_mouse_reads's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Death

btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.0

The mystery in this book kept me interested, but the twist wasn't for me. One part surprised me, but the other part seemed reductive and trite.

As a whole, didn't love the romance, but that's because it's very lusty and not much "get to know you" happened. The demi in me just couldn't get on board with it all. The sexy parts seemed unrealistic at times too, but that's a whole other conversation. Also, I felt like there were just a lot of questions I never got answers to, and while the characters might've been fine with it, I wanted to know as it felt like a huge part of the mystery of it all.

In the end, I was interested throughout, but a lot of it was just a miss for me as things came to light. Great for gothic girlies who love when the LI calls the MC a "good girl" and enjoys a little bit of a psychological/paranormal thriller. I am not that type of girly.

Rep: Parent with schizophrenia and dementia

TW: blood, suicide, murder, death, torture, fire, sexual content, kidnapping; mentions abandonment, death of a parent, bullying 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Murder, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Torture

Minor: Bullying, Abandonment, and Death of parent

reads_all_the_books's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Death

raequigley's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicide, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Death, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Abortion, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Panic attacks/disorders

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

4.75

This book is something else in a good way, it was creepy but I loved it. I definitely need more books set in this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cursing, Sexual content, Murder, Suicide, Death, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Dementia, Grief, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Pregnancy and Incest

bonez_x's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, and Suicidal thoughts