Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

72 reviews

robotfanclub's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Cursing, Child death, Body horror, Blood, War, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Torture, Antisemitism, Vomit, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

pie_rogue's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Animal death, Body horror, and Death

hamstringy's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

Unexpectedly really emotionally resonant! Pitched via Twitter as medieval Black Plague horror, and it’s definitely horror but a much quieter and disturbing horror rather than a nonstop onslaught of Big Events. Also somehow still very vulnerable and three-dimensional when approaching characters who have lived some contradictory and not-so-great choices. 

It’s also a particularly humanizing portrayal of a pandemic & a deeply religious response to that pandemic. It’s interesting to me that a lot of the attitudes around *somehow still living during horrible times* match very closely with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Animal death, Gore, Torture, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Infidelity, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Grief, and Xenophobia

waterlogged's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Torture, and Gore

swansreina's review against another edition

Not for me. I usually enjoy books with similar themes/plots but I found the book too crude and not very engaging. I wasn’t a fan of the writing style either. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Death of parent

akil_ss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Rape

matt4hire's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A sometime knight meets a strange young girl during the Black Plague in France, and ends up getting pulled along on a strange quest.

Do you like religious horror? Do you like post-apocalyptic horror? Do you like dark fantasy? Do you like really well-written, flawed characters trying to do their best in life? This is a book you should read.

Buehlman’s writing is pretty aces. His characters are interesting, his senses of action and pacing are top-notch.

The one thing to know, if you do pick this up, is that this book is actually scary, and fairly gruesome, too. It’s not exactly splatter stuff, but there’s quite a bit of violence.

Still, definitely recommend if you’re into that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Cursing, and Gore

deems22's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Sexual content

Moderate: Antisemitism, Body horror, and Sexual assault

ajay913's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Antisemitism, Animal death, Rape, and Torture

box_wine_hero's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

A horror story that takes place during the outbreak of the bubonic plague--it's like this book was written just for me. The monsters are horrifying and work as well as literal terrors as they do metaphors for the ravages of the plague.  The ending was satisfying as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Death