Reviews tagging 'Blood'

From Below by Darcy Coates

6 reviews

melll_brisk's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide

seawarrior's review

5.0

From Below is a bone-chilling and original horror novel with organic scares. I've always been fascinated by scuba-diving and underwater worlds, but Coates used our innate fears of drowning and being stranded in the sea against readers, frightening even me, who doesn't have a natural-born fear of water. The book was gripping the whole way through, and the switches between timelines and characters were the perfect length to hold suspense. I was thoroughly entertained by this haunting story and highly recommend it for other horror readers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Confinement

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

aliensmileyface's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Suicide, Blood, Violence, and Death

sophieamreacher's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Super creepy. Hated it and loved it at the same time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, Vomit, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

polarbearisla's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

So good. So terrifying and yet what an adventure! The tension developed gradually yet not painfully. The way the horror was written was so impressive. So scary and the characters were so real and lovable. Amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Body horror

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Death, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Violence

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical trauma, Child death, Death of parent, Body horror, Blood, Alcohol, Confinement, Death, Murder, Cursing, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail