Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

The Cipher by Kathe Koja

5 reviews

keen's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Confinement

Minor: Excrement and Blood

kurumipanda's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Gore, Mental illness, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Drug use, and Vomit

Minor: Confinement

judassilver's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Minor: Gun violence, Cannibalism, Car accident, Homophobia, and Excrement

funfamilyvideos's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Excrement, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Confinement

stephanieluxton's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.25

Let's start with what I liked: the premise was great. A mysterious hole appears in a storeroom and anything that enters the void changes. Love it. The possibilities felt endless. Some of the writing felt incredibly poetic and the writing did a great job at making you feel the depressed, grey, bleak atmosphere of the story. This book started out with a pretty fast pace so I thought it would be a wild ride. Then it came to a screeching halt. 
The middle of this book is so boring. I felt like nothing that happened in the entire bulk of the book meant anything. There was extra characters we didn't need. The spooks basically stop entirely til the end. Then it ends and I didn't appreciate the level of ambiguity there was. It felt anticlimactic. This book could have been way shorter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Excrement, Bullying, and Blood

The animal cruelty involves bugs and a mouse being deformed and killed by going through the hole. There's a lot of alcohol. The relationship between the main characters is very toxic. There's a few weird sex scenes. There's some body horror in the form of a hand wound that kind of mutates and spreads. A character gets their ankles broken and is killed. Overall I wouldn't consider this story to be that graphic.