Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

606 reviews

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is brilliant, but if you aren't prepared for an unflinching story of a hard life of a girl who has been plagued by SV her whole life, I'd recommended not reading it until you are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gore, Death, Blood, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, Grief, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Body horror, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Classism

kissjjong's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

just_justine's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

lilymeibean's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

an interesting addition to the "dark academia" genre -- it consistently had a mysterious vibe that kept me on my toes and while i was able to predict some elements of the plot, others kept me entirely in the dark. i would've liked to have been able to draw conclusions that didn't kind of come out of nowhere like some did -- but i still enjoyed the reading experience overall! i'll definitely be picking up the sequel next!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Gore

marmsies's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Rape

cargosharks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Gore

Minor: Addiction

crowseph's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Murder, Sexual assault, Rape, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Violence

jontel's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

Overrated, slow pacing and repetitive then packs on too much at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Gore

spiresalex06's review against another edition

Dark in a way that is not interesting or new, just depressing and disturbing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Rape, Classism, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Violence, Pedophilia, Murder, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, and Gore

camam4's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Blood, Sexual assault, Gore, and Excrement

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Rape and Drug abuse