Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Road of Bones by Christopher Golden

7 reviews

kitkat_reads93's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Body horror, Death, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing, Child death, Murder, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

leapingfrogs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Medical trauma, Murder, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Slavery, and Cancer

ifoundcallie's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-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

5.0

This book blew me away…This is a masterclass in writing that imbeds dread into your bones and causes horror so profound that you can’t do anything but silently scream. Chilling. I could write a whole dissertation on how awed I am by this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Car accident, Animal death, Child death, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent, Excrement, Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Self harm, and Pedophilia

Animalistic body horror, freezing to death, heart attack, frostbite, desolate location

bookeduntil'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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Kidnapping and Child death

Minor: Car accident and Vomit

add_a_little_spook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, and Child death

saintmaud's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This was going to be a 4 star read until the last quarter which just felt underwhelming. Honestly, it's become a given for contemporary horror now to have a great setting and build but then get scared of delivering on it. Road of Bones was very typical in that sense like i loved the documentary makers go somewhere creepy but then none of that is developed on which was so disappointing :/ Also the sections on animal and natural spirits in general were well written but i feel that aspect could've been expanded on more. 
Great work on the overall setting though I'm very much a fan of the setting/landscape being a character itself or looming over the story, being very present in it and this book delivered on that ! 

“It feels like…” she began, reaching for the right words in English. “Forever.” Dissatisfied, she pressed her fingers to the glass, indicating the trees and the white mountains that reflected back the moon. “Like the last stop before forever.” […] 
He bent over the dash and looked out at those same mountains, at the wilderness beyond the edge of the town, and he understood. Here in this little scattering of human structures they could still convince themselves they were in the world of people, but once they passed into the woods, it would have been impossible to pretend they had control or authority over anything. Hunters and herders went into those woods or up that mountain from Akhust, and when they did they were surrendering to the primal nature of the world. Akhust stood as a stark reminder of how small a thing it was to be a human being.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Animal death

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual assault

ripxw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Car accident, Kidnapping, Child death, Genocide, and Death