Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Nuestra parte de noche by Mariana Enríquez

112 reviews

zhi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

Absolutely terrifying - had to fight back the urge to read this before bed but could not stop myself from turning the pages… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gore, Drug use, Blood, and Body horror

eelizard's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide, Vomit, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, War, Torture, Child abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Medical content, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Slavery

saptrees's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

It took me a while to get into it- it's slow in the beginning, especially when you don't know who anyone is or what's going on. But then the story progresses quite quickly once the ball starts rolling, and you start putting the pieces together. It's not a jumpscare horror, but the atmosphere is one of constant dread, aided by the backdrop of the dictatorship. There were moments where I read with my jaw on the floor. The trauma of people, of cycles, of corruption. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

kneecole's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Body horror, Child abuse, Violence, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Homophobia, Classism, Car accident, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical trauma, War, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Car accident, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death

Death of a pet dog is “off screen”

annagerman's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I wanted to like this book more than I did in the end. 

The writing is masterful, the atmosphere is creepy and deliciously dark, and I liked the characters a lot. 
The violence and gore was so well executed, it was disturbing and shocking but sparse and exact, never gratuitous.
I enjoyed the elements of folklore and the sense of time and place - I really love it when a book feels rooted in a specific culture and location. 
I loved Rosario's POV, it almost worked as a short novela on its own.

But the pacing is awful, especially in the last 30%. The ending was incredibly underwhelming and rushed.

There were so many unexplained events and unanswered questions in the end - some of it was intentional, I understand that and I can even appreciate it, but some plot points felt convoluted, unnecessary or completely abandoned

the biggest one that I can't let go of us the fact that there was no reference to where Rosario's soul was, I though Juan was dedicating all his time in the empty house to finding it out, but it wasn't revisited in the book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, and Death of parent

jublian's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Medical content, and Chronic illness

shay43geek's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Infidelity, and Homophobia

yrioona's review

adventurous dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Una mezcla impresionante de ficción histórica, terror cósmico, y drama familiar multigeneracional. Me fascinaban los personajes y me encantaba como la autora usa la lenguaje, el imagen, y la metáfora. Es un libro hermoso y también horripilante, con personajes complejos (incluyendo versiones de David Bowie y Genesis P-Orridge!) y una trama que extende desde el siglo XVIII hasta los años noventa tras múltiples narradores, y que se entrelaza con la historia de Argentina y sus horrores reales e imaginados. Es increíblemente oscuro y a veces brutal, pero también tierno, y enraizado en una exploración franca de la trauma intergeneracional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Self harm, Chronic illness, Torture, Medical content, Murder, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Confinement, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Genocide, Sexual violence, Suicide, Child death, Car accident, Death of parent, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

ka_cam's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad 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

4.5

A gripping horror read- fast because I didn’t want to put it down. Also, very dark. The setting and descriptions of time, place, energy and ethos of various setting was very well done, especially for translation. I appreciated how I really got a feel for how ‘normal’ the very traditionally abnormal (hyper-wealthy multigenerational death cult and spirits/spirit worlds) world was for various characters, and their distinct experiences of it as medium, clairvoyant child of medium, elder, child, follower, other etc added to the sense of reality. Went a bit on/could have been a bit shorter but a compelling read. Check the content warnings tho, not for the faint of heart!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, and Violence

knenigans's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Violence, Abandonment, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Suicide