Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda

17 reviews

oliviapincin's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Chronic illness, Confinement, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Classism, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Child death, and Sexual harassment

fernandaptln's review against another edition

dark reflective tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Gore, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Torture, Body horror, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Incest, and Stalking

Minor: Animal death

caracabe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Self harm, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Body horror, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Child death, Animal cruelty, Lesbophobia, Animal death, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

walrus420's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious

• 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: Blood, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Torture, Body horror, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol and Child death

paperknotbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

Cerebral and jarring. I believe to be the best cult themed book I’ve consumed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Sexual content, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Dysphoria, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Body horror, Torture, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Self harm, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Blood

Moderate: Excrement, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, and Eating disorder

savvylit's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

"...the nature of daughters, says the creed, is to jump on the mother, tongue gripped tight in their hands; to survive the jaw to become the jaw; to take the place of the monster - that is, the place of the mother - God who initiated them into the world of desire."

This unsettling novel is about motherhood, daughterhood, girlhood, and feminine power. Ojeda crafts beautifully eerie sentences that are evocative to the point of being cinematic. The coven-like group of girls at the story's center is so deliciously unhinged in a way that only teenage girls can be. Their desire for agency and power is the driving factor in the disturbing choices that they make under Annelise's leadership.

All in all, Jawbone is quite the fever dream. I loved Ojeda's evocative style and discussions of female power & relationships. Ultimately, though, the inconsistent timeline interrupted the flow of this story for me. I don't always feel that books need linear timelines but, in this case, I think that Jawbone would have benefited greatly from that feature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, Medical trauma, Self harm, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Torture, Confinement, Chronic illness, Body horror, Violence, and Sexual content

aliss_'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The author has a twisted mind and i love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Incest, and Body horror

Moderate: Blood, Self harm, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Incest, Gore, Abortion, Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

mahitdzmare's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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: Misogyny, Cursing, Incest, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Gore, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Intense with that excruciating ending.

I really enjoyed the audiobook; wish I could've found the original Spanish version.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Lesbophobia, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Gore

simonamiller's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Gore and Body horror