Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

716 reviews

katesmiles's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Religious bigotry, and Body horror

pacifickat's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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? No

4.25

*review to follow*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Misogyny, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Cursing, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Classism

Religious extremism, religious fanaticism, religious terrorism, mass extinction, disease transmission, misgendering, fundamentalist parents, biblical text quotations, the book of Revelation, end times theology, violent rage, guilt, shame, fear, religious indoctrination

maresuju's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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: Transphobia, Body horror, Gun violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Torture, Deadnaming, and War

Minor: Dysphoria, Death of parent, Body shaming, and Bullying

sylexlibris's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Death of parent, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, and Vomit

hi_saac's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Deadnaming, Child death, Vomit, Violence, Dysphoria, Blood, Body horror, Torture, Gore, Death, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Murder, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse

cassius_orion's review against another edition

dark

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Child death, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Self harm, Body horror, Gore, Violence, War, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

haylee_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

This book was an absolutely wild ride from page one and it never slowed down. I am so glad my hold came through at the library because I’ve been wanting to read this for a while. I think, for how grotesque of a book this is, it was handled with so much love and care. It touches on religious trauma, found family, and self-identity and discovery. There were so many Bible verses sprinkled throughout, which I think added so much depth and nuance to the story. Even though I am not religious, I think that aspect of the story was so intriguing. The representation in this story was also amazing! I would have loved to dive even deeper into how the world got to where it was when the story started. Also, this book was really….descriptive, so please make sure to check the CWs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Gore, Religious bigotry, War, Vomit, Deadnaming, Death, Blood, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

panbread's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Loved this book. If you're angry and trans you should read it. If you grew up christian and been traumatized by that you should read it. If you're both of those things, by golly, what are you doing just sitting there??? Get to reading this!! 👏👏
You owe it to yourself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Transphobia, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Gore, Violence, and Body horror

allys_shelf's review against another edition

I knew the content warnings going in, but did not understand just how much of a focus the body horror, gore, and vomit were going to be. 

I tried to push through because this is a raw and powerful story, but ultimately I need to step back from it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Homophobia, Murder, Blood, Child death, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

jinx3djules's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Blood, Gore, and Body horror