Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

88 reviews

jessy4550's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I liked the book, but I do wish the ending was a little longer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Violence, Child death, Self harm, Death, Gaslighting, and Gore

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, Physical abuse, Suicide, Kidnapping, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

friskreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

Horror type fiction is definitely out of my comfort zone, but this one was well-written and used gore sparingly to advance the narrative. It is chilling in its quiet, slowness and quite different to anything I've read before. I liked the author's end notes explaining his literary 'easter eggs' (although I didn't pick any while reading) and his inspiration which gave the story some more meaning and context to the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Suicide, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Vomit, Hate crime, and Homophobia

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

jackbifrost's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Blood, Hate crime, Murder, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

maggiejean's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia

froggydanny's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Child death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal cruelty, and Medical content

zeloco's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child death, Murder, Medical trauma, Gore, Vomit, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Physical abuse

Minor: Grief, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

gnomes95's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Child death and Hate crime

Minor: Homophobia

cassie7e's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.5

3 stars (Rating might be higher if I was a regular horror/slasher fan)

I very much prefer psychological or gothic thrillers to the pure horror genre, and didn't quite know what I was getting into with this one. On top of that, this book is one massive example of the Trolley Problem, except that it's unclear if the consequences are real. The book does a great job of lending credibility to both possibilities and favoring neither. But gives hs absolutely no reason why the predicament exists in the first place or why the solutions would solve it. Felt very shallow and I didn't really care what happened to the characters besides Wen. The ending was not very satisfying to me and normally I don't mind open endings. Perhaps all this is why I didn't find all the violence and threats compelling. But also pleasant to read a story with normalized queer rep.

I strongly disliked Amy Landon's narration performance. Dialogue sounded stilted and over-voiced, over-serious, over-monotonous. Some of this was her struggling to do male voices, but some of this was a strange tone used for the whole text. This is not a book to listen to on audio for this reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Death, Murder, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Hate crime

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Torture

_morgreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Gaslighting, Medical content, Medical trauma, Cursing, Gun violence, Body horror, Child death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Violence, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Blood, Torture, and Vomit

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

started & finished this book while getting my hair braided; great diversion from that, but overall it was simply okay 

I’m not sure if this or Cabin In The Woods came first but for me the premise wasn’t very novel, so the interesting part was the people. Andrew & Eric just made me sad, and felt like characters that had been traumatized for the sake of bringing it up during the home invasion. idk how to explain it but they felt overly fleshed out, contrived? 

the ending was nice but ultimately I wish it had either been a little more eldritch or a little more home invasion by cultists; as it stands, it wasn’t enough of either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Murder, and Gore