Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

13 reviews

kaneebli's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

WARNING TO PEOPLE TRIGGERED BY ANIMAL CRUELTY AND DEATH:

I don't know why more people put "animal death" in the "minor" category for trigger warnings, but that's straight up not true.  there is animal death all throughout this book. MOST of the animal deaths are not super graphic, but dead animals are seen throughout the book from beginning to end. 

also, there is one animal death that i consider VERY graphic, along with graphic animal cruelty:

one of the scientists grabs a vulture and smashes it on the ground multiple times, and then throws it off to the side, where it is described as "twitching" and "dying" so you know it's a painful slow death.

so yeah i genuinely do not know why more people haven't listed the animal death in this book as "graphic" because i think it was pretty graphic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Suicide, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Genocide, Slavery, Vomit, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and War

charlatte_lee's review

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, War, and Classism

amanda_doty's review

adventurous hopeful 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gore, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief

Minor: Genocide and Infertility

inirac's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

Better than the last Turton novel but  a little disappointed in the world building? Idk something was missing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racism, Slavery, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

lahars_little_library's review

slow-paced

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

2.0

The concept was great but I found this book to be exceptionally hard to follow. The point of view kept changing without prompting so I often had to reread paragraphs to understand who was present and was speaking. The AI (Abi) narrated some but not all of the book with limited distinction between when she (it) was speaking. She would come out of nowhere and just insert into the scene interrupting the flow. The mystery itself was well formed and had many red herrings and jumbled clues with high stakes. I just wish I enjoyed reading it more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Murder

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide, Blood, and Cannibalism

ellbell1017's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

jazhandz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I enjoyed Evelyn Hardcastle a lot, and D&DW a fair amount, so I was really excited to dig into this. It was very twisty and complicated in the way Turton’s books always are, but I loved the process of entangling what the high concept was this time, and I blazed through reading it. A fascinating mystery and if you’ll excuse me I need to go reread Evelyn Hardcastle to chase this emotional high again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Medical content and Stalking

Fantastical racism

pewterwolf's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

I will be honest with you. I didn’t know what I was going to get with this. I just liked the cover and the blurb on the book, but I had such a good time with this. 

It’s such a strange beast. It’s sci-if post-apocalyptic novel with a murder mystery at its heart. And I devoured this! I had such a blast with this, much more than I thought I would as the last few reads have been very middle of the road for me. 

Because this is a mix of genres, you do have to give a tad more leeway over some of the far-fetched moments and elements, though there were several times that I did go “that seems like a stretch”. Plus, there are so many names thrown at the reader that you need a moment to go “are you important to the story?” 

But this was unputdownable with the murder and the wider issues this book tackled (AI, generics, the environment, etc) and the audiobook is narrated by Adjoa Andoh makes this feel much richer. I really liked this as it was twisty, fun, unputdownable read, but I completely understand that this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea reading for a crime thriller. I must say I’m intrigued to try out this author’s previous works. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

geegee98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Gore, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic