Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

6 reviews

ghost_cat99's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, Animal death, and Gore

readthesparrow's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.75

Style is interesting, and on a technical prose level is is excellent. However, the heavy references can make it difficult to follow at times, even for a horror/slasher lover. Style, despite being interesting and being thematically appropriate, was also difficult to follow at times and often exhausting, even for a 200 page novel. Normally I would blaze through a 200 page novel, but this took me five days to read because I could only get through around 20-40 pages at a time before having to take a break.

Liked the story and the characters, but it was just. Too much at times. 

Also,

the final college epilogue was really goofy. Did I like it? Eh. Sure. It's camp.

I think I was mostly just glad it was over.

Interesting to see the bones it shares with MHIACS.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal cruelty

frannysal's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal cruelty, Death, Animal death, Blood, Gore, and Violence

lostinworlds's review against another edition

funny fast-paced

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

1.5

Honestly the only thing I liked about it was the ending. Once the moment the girls head gets popped off is when I laughed and then proceeded to find the rest amusing. Only reason I contiued to listen to the audiobook was I figured I should have a 1 star under my belt this year lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Murder, Violence, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture

Minor: Police brutality

krzzykitty92's review

dark funny fast-paced

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

4.5

It’s a fun, fast paced horror set up like a screenplay with all the beloved slasher movie tropes and plot twists.
A lot of fun to read once you get used to the format, the first 54 pages is the perfect marker. 
SGJ brings his amazing gore, humor, and there is a turtle! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Animal cruelty

Minor: Sexual content

navayiota's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

The writing of this book is so unique and meta, I really liked it. I loved the use of tropes and self awareness, really just super interesting. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is I don't like slashers, so I found it a bit boring sometimes. It being an audiobook really helped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol