633 reviews for:

Black Mouth

Ronald Malfi

3.89 AVERAGE

quillsolo's review

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

beepzelbub's review

4.0

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

trueman0510's review

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

brandondorf's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

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norman1895's review

3.5

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ncarter5069's review

5.0

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4.6/5 - The characters in this are great, fully fleshed out and realistic. Harkens back to Stephen King’s IT in a number of ways, including the supernatural nature of the core villain. The journey of this book was great. It would’ve been 5/5 had the penultimate encounter not been a bit fever dreamy.

rohrergasm's review

5.0

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I loved this book. It’s scary, well written, and a lot of what the characters experience is deeply relatable.

ana988's review

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

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Couldn't get invested in the characters or the story. Very slow start that literally put me to sleep. Stopped at page 120.

brandonwriteshorror's review

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I have never been a substance abuser, but I feel like I have a much better understanding after reading this.

I also understand you don't trust magicians you meet in the woods.

My feeling after reading this was sorrow (you'll know by the end), but also an immense satisfaction of closure for the characters, which is rare in horror.

I won't summarize the plot (just read it).

However, by the end, you will be in your feelings too.

This book was an excellent telling of the "childhood trauma/revenge" trope that Stephen King did so well in IT.

As someone who lives in WV, I'm glad that he didn't make us look like backwoods morons. When I first grabbed this book, I had no idea it was set there and that was a nice surprise for me.

Malfi also did a great job writing about how generational trauma can derail your life if you don't stop it.

I have one final statement to make after reading this:

Ronald. Malfi. Is. A. Genius.

notquiteheroes's review against another edition

2.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated