Reviews tagging 'Gore'

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

137 reviews

remib's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, War, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Antisemitism

catpolhamus's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Suicide, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Grief, and Gore

elisacarlene's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Blood, Gore, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Child death, Antisemitism, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Misogyny, Suicide, and Grief

willow_thewisp's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, War, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Violence, Colonisation, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Alcohol, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide

flo_rence's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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? Yes

5.0

This book has not left my mind since i first read it 7 months ago. There are no words i can use to describe how incredible this book is. It is a work of art. It is so beautifully written and the author writes these characters wonderfully. There are so many little details that pop up over and over again. The descriptions throughout of the setting and the emotions of the two main characters are on a whole new level and evoke such emotion in the reader. It brings to light the gruesome and heartbreaking reality that soldiers faced on the front lines of World War 1, and the complicated experience of being queer in a time when it was much less accepted. It handles such horrifying topics in an eloquent way and fully enrages the reader- it’s as if you are there with them the whole time. It is a truly emotional read that has changed me forever. Winn depicts the decent into madness unlike any other book i have read, her characters are flawed in a very human heartbreaking way. She gives strong personality’s to the main characters so over the course of the war we cleary see the shift in attitude as if by the end of the novel they are different people entirely trying to remember who they were before the war.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Classism, and Cursing

itisnatal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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: Death, Antisemitism, Gore, Grief, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

jennyoli96's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Dementia, Grief, Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Classism

zjanda's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.0

I went in apprehensive but am glad I read this tender and harrowing love story. 
I was moved to tears several times, more by the friendships developed and change on the frontlines than the central romance.. 
Well crafted, touching, unflinching, and bleak. Strongly recommend you read the trigger warnings. Reading before bed gave me nightmares. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gore, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

cyrus_'s review against another edition

emotional medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Gun violence, and War

dendodge's review

dark sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, War, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Antisemitism and Suicide