Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

60 reviews

yuyuv's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Drug use, Medical content, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Cursing, Addiction, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Car accident

bambooboy'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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Pedophilia, Murder, Grief, Alcohol, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Blood, Gun violence, Body horror, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Incest, Sexual content, Medical content, Classism, Racism, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Colonisation

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Drug use, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Grief, Dementia, Colonisation, Death of parent, Incest, Rape, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

zoracious's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Alcohol, Murder, Gaslighting, Gun violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Death

what_karla_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent and Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Incest, Gun violence, and Gaslighting

jaimeeslitlife's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

White Horse was not quite what I expected. I've seen many glowing reviews so maybe this is a case of my getting my hopes up way too high? 

Note: White Horse read as more mystery than horror to me (which did not impact my rating, it just seems like a good thing to point out). 

The premise of White Horse seemed promising, but the clunky pace had me working pretty hard to get invested in the story. There was quite a bit of repetition, and lots of moments where information was being withheld from the main character for flimsy reasons (ie it felt like I could feel the author trying to slow down the mystery and prolong the big reveal). And the ending was ultimately not worth it to me. Like I said, there are lots of great reviews on this one from others, so maybe I'm missing something. But I'll put my spoiler-filled thoughts below:

The ending to this one really ruined it for me. I think that the concept of humans as monsters and exploring the different forms abusive relationships can take has promise, but the ending was so so so icky to me. There was a weird feeling that we were supposed to slightly understand/forgive the child-molester/murderer father? Forgiveness is great, but there are some things that just shouldn't be forgiven. And then there's also Debby's relationship with her husband that seems quite unhealthy but is also forgiven and forgotten at the end. And then everything magically wraps up to this super happy fairytale ending in like five pages. I'm just spilling my train of thought here, but this one just did not work for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gun violence

ukponge's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Alcohol, Drug use, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

julied's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Addiction, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Sexism, Vomit, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

theoceanrose's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Gaslighting, Car accident, and Murder

pages_with_panda's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

1.5

Kari holds a lot of resentment towards her mother who left her when she was only days old. In his grief after she left, her father turned to alcohol and ends up with brain damage from an accident. 

Kari’s cousin gives her a bracelet that belonged to her mother and sets off a chain of events towards discovering the truth behind her disappearance. 

At first Kari thinks she’s going crazy when she starts to have visions, but discovers her mother is leading her to the truth of what happened all those years ago. 

The story was very slow to start; it seemed like it was setting up different directions but none of them really panned out and all were forgotten. All the evidence or hints that Kari got were practically handed to her and it took other characters to push her towards her mother. 

Also, I’ve seen this advertised as a horror but after reading it, I don’t agree at all. Unless that by mentioning Stephen King so many times it’s horror by proxy? 

There was also a section near the end where she visits the famous Overlook Hotel that Stephen King’s The Shinning takes place. This whole visit felt completely out of place but we didn’t stop hearing how much of a fan Kari is so I guess it was kind of interesting? 

The scenes were repetitive and the writing was a bit too boring. It felt very monotonous and monologuing at times. I got lost during the climax when we’re told

someone is wounded, apparently they got shot,  but that wasn’t clear at all from the text before hand?

The story doesn’t really get interesting until the few chapters and even then it wasn’t great. 

In the end I couldn’t find myself caring about what happened to any of the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, and Pedophilia

Minor: Racism