Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

18 reviews

nojerama's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Loved this so much, it was a re-read for me and I definitely appreciated it more the second time around. Heartbreaking yet somehow comforting in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Colonisation, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Blood, Death of parent, Deportation, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Gore, Murder, Racism, Violence, and War

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Child death, Pregnancy, Slavery, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

vigil's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

i loved every inch of this book. my one complaint is the alternating pov’s don’t become clear until further into them, leaving the story a bit muddied in the meantime.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide attempt, War, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Slavery, and Violence

aardwyrm's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Short and sharp and bittersweet, balancing the mythos at the core of the worldbuilding with the personal experience of the (most prominent) viewpoint, grim and unrelenting and yet ultimately welcoming. Also mermaids and awkward conversations about mermaid banging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Pregnancy, Blood, War, Violence, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Self harm, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

melodyseestrees's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Grief

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I listened to this via the audiobook version, which is narrated by Daveed Diggs. I highly, highly recommend that reading experience. I had previously read An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, so I knew that I was in for some deep (no pun intended) stuff with anything by them. However, I think that what Rivers accomplished here is so beyond anything else I've read, especially when considered with the context of the Drexia ouevre and the clipping song. The exploration of generational trauma and the impact of history on the collective and the individual was heart-rending, deeply impactful, and richly portrayed through each character. Also the diversity in this short novella is some of the best I've ever seen. I see you, demi rep! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Xenophobia

sarah984's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

This was a short book, but I found the writing style fairly dense and challenging. Somehow it seemed to have a lot of extraneous detail and repetition, especially in the middle. However, I really liked the messages about the pain and power of shared history and generational trauma, and the ending was good enough to make me want to rate it higher than I had initially.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Sexual content, and Genocide

podanotherjessi's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

Beware of triggering content in this book. Specifically suicide attempts and self harm, but there is a lot of tough content in this book.
That said, this is a beautiful, complex, rich book. This is slow, but very worth it. And worth really taking your time on to absorb. A lot of deep story telling and many layers of messages. Really a brilliant work of art.

Edit:
Reread as an audiobook. I think the faster pace of listening rather than reading myself was a detriment to the experience. Diggs has a wonderful voice, but I'm not sure he's the best at narrating. But still a great story that is worth taking your time with. Really give it your full attention.

Characters: 9
Plot: 8
Setting: 10
General appeal: 9
Writing style: 9
Originality: 10
Ending: 9

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt