Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

27 reviews

yuyuv's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Eating disorder, Ableism, Grief, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Blood, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, and Sexual assault

lizzardbeth99's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Ableism, Blood, Bullying, Eating disorder, Gore, Torture, and Violence

sunflowersarepretty's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

wth?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Sexual violence, Blood, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Child death

Minor: Medical content and Medical trauma

nausiqaa's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

3.75

the more i think about it the more complex it seems

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gore, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Blood, and Violence

hirachelhigh's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Gore, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Bullying, and Physical abuse

woosha's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

A quick read, brilliantly told from the POV of a 14 year-old boy. It got me into literary fiction. I cried so much while reading this. And to this day, I still can't stop thinking about how well-written it is (except for that one chapter bringing up

suicidal thoughts and self-harm, I don't think it was elaborated any further in the next chapters, or how it could have affected him

).

note : I didn't read the trigger warnings and I advise anyone who's interested in reading the book to do so beforehand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Medical content, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

caoxtina's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Gore, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

mahry's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

flucillie's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

the writing is absolutely beautiful and i’m excited to read more of kawakami’s work. 

can’t give it a 5 star even if i enjoyed the writing style since it’s so heavy and i’m most likely never reading it again. also the ending was preachy imo

highly NOT recommend if u are in a bad headspace. read the trigger warnings beforehand kasi u might think kaya mo ihandle based sa first chapter pero bestie when i tell u it gets worse, it really does.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Eating disorder

taiga_in_the_books's review

dark emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Gore