Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Fireman by Joe Hill

4 reviews

smithreads's review

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense slow-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Blood, Body horror, Hate crime, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Self harm

idroplungs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

As with all of Hill's books, it was a great read that was hard to put down. A lot of twists and turns that were often foreshadowed, but not always how you expected. Like a marvel movie, hang on after the credits, there is just a bit more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal death

myka's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Violence

em_n_em's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Gore