Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

15 reviews

gus717's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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, Child death, Drug abuse, Murder, Drug use, Violence, War, Gore, and Torture

Moderate: Addiction and Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Sexism, and Incest

downtowndaly's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Alcohol, Violence, Alcoholism, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Drug use, Incest, Torture, and Rape

da3m0nic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, Cursing, War, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Medical trauma, Torture, Alcoholism, Genocide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Misogyny, Confinement, and Incest

jenny_readss's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Violence

josiah17's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Very entertaining revenge story. Every single character brought something to the table, and Abercrombie's dialogue is just incredibly engaging. The dynamics between Monza and her crew provided a decent amount of nuance and tons of laughs. Shivers and Cosca in particular are standouts. Shivers mostly unintentionally hilarious, and Cosca is always ridiculous in nature.

This book also was by far the darkest of the books in the First Law world. It was abundantly grim. Largely because of the setting and Monza's status after the first chapter, but it felt like Abercrombie took things to the next level of hopelessness as we get to explore a different portion of the Circle of the World. 

Loved the structure of the book too, although the last 130 pages felt slightly prolonged to me. Looking forward to the adaptation and the other standalones. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Violence, and Sexual content

eh1736's review

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Vomit, Violence, Drug abuse, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content

pickledlettuce's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

DNF. I tried liking this one, but I really could not get into it. I don’t like any of these characters, can’t root for them. Interest is fine, and can be enough at times, but not in this case. Sorry Joe

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug use, Gore, and Cursing

Moderate: Incest

amir_hamza's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Sexual content, Cursing, Violence, and Gore

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

Simultaneously THE ABSOLUTE SHIT and a little problematic. I have a weak spot for ol' Joe and I am so happy to be back in The First Law. Monza is the Grand Duchess of my heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content, Incest, and Alcoholism

Minor: Homophobia and Misogyny

becsti's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Characters excellent as always

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Sexual content