Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The September House by Carissa Orlando

222 reviews

larajgriff1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Sufficiently scary in the horror way while also being scary in the interpersonal way.  Though warning: if you don't like gore, don't come within 10 feet of this book.  Much like blood from the walls, it oozes from every page.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Gaslighting

onewoman_bookclub's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gore, and Blood

jellyfishleila's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide

ruscin's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This one had me guessing the whole time! It was gripping, and both lighthearted and dark. I couldn’t tell you what was going to happen right up to the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

hayley2u's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, and Murder

jenreads30's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a roller-coaster of a book. First, I was  excited, then not so much. Then I wanted it to be over with already, THEN I couldn't get enough. One of the twists I saw coming from the beginning.  But that doesn't change my feelings. I could have done without all the cussing. It was just a little excessive. But overall, I'm glad I finally read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gore, and Violence

jaredrlopatin's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

dilani's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

this one’s a different kind of horror. scary at some parts but there’s some dark humor through out that softens it. there are a lot of ghosts in this one, so much so i forgot certain ones existed as the book went on. i liked this book for the most part, but it could have been shortened. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

lori007's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, and Gore

maimy_santiago99's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

This book was recommended to me as funny and scary. It definitely has its so-absurd-it's-funny moments.  Didn't scare me at all but books rarely do. I like that the "it turns out she's just crazy and all the haunting stuff was her the whole time" trope was inverted,  but the whol  thing of the haunting as a metaphor for an abusive relationship was extremely ham-handed and for the first half of so of the story, the main character really reads like a self involved sociopath. The few moments she does something to indicate actual emotion become suspect by how emotionless she is most of the time,  appear to be play acting. I probably wouldn't have continued reading long enough to get to the absurdities and the meat of the haunting if it were much longer a book, but it's so short I kinda just kept plowing on.  It reads more like a first draft than a finished novel but it wasn't bad, just needed a LOT more refining. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Gore