Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

46 reviews

rojo25's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child death, Drug abuse, Murder, Racial slurs, Torture, and Violence

othersociologist's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Child death and Cancer

rhadden's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

An incredibly gripping and intense horror noir from an exciting new Puerto Rican author. Firmly entrenched in Trump's America, it tells the story of a father who becomes a hit-man to deal with the medical debt brought on by his daughter's pediatric cancer. On his way to a huge final score, he 

encounters many monsters, from drug-addled allies, to bigoted Proud Boys, to things beyond the realm of human understanding. Tragic, violent and freaky... an absolutely unique and excellent horror thriller.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Child death, Drug abuse, Child abuse, and Torture

victoriaharris001's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide attempt, Torture, Vomit, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Addiction, Gaslighting, Gore, Trafficking, Transphobia, Violence, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Suicidal thoughts

mplsmysteryreader's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, and Torture

doomluz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I like the mix of Spanish words and phrases, though I’m not sure how much non-Spanish speakers might be able to understand some of them.
It starts sad, but then it gets really intense. It has some supernatural elements, but for the most part it's gritty and realistic, in a gory and violent way.
Overall, it was a great book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Addiction, Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, and Cancer

Minor: Transphobia

jennifer_bush_73's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Cancer, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Death of parent, Violence, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Body horror, Bullying, and Suicidal thoughts

marae216's review against another edition

Did not enjoy the writing style or the graphic descriptions of violence that went far beyond anything I have read in any other book. I really loved Blacktop Wasteland and picked up this book hoping for similar content but it had too many issues for me to finish it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Medical content, and Violence

princesstripsy's review against another edition

DNF’d which is rare for me. I’ve read two really bad books from BOM that I managed to suffer through but this one has compounded issues. The language jumps are a good idea on paper but hard to read. The violence and over the top and graphic substance and child abuse was where I officially called it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Physical abuse, Torture, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Drug use, Gore, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

heatherapril's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

0.25

Extremely predictable. The characters were all awful and hypocritical. A significant portion of dialog is in Spanish, for no reason. A sentence might start in English and end in Spanish, and it’s not general Spanish most people know, you have to be an advanced speaker to understand. The author tried so hard to write a thriller that just failed.  An EXCESSIVE amount of time spent on child abuse that was absolutely not needed at all. The vocabulary and character development felt like a high schooler wrote the book, you lose track how many things are “dilapidated”.  Half of one page was “Not enough money for rent. not enough money for car insurance.” And the like. I will be throwing this book away because it has no home on any shelf. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Addiction, Child abuse, Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Torture, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Child death, Racism, and Cancer