Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

17 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

siobhanward's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.5

I'm sad to have to give this one a low rating, but the style really didn't work for me - the screenplay-style writing made the book really hard to follow. The plot was ok but definitely would have been more effective in a regular novel style, at least in terms of being able to follow what was happening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Child death, Gore, and Murder

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

sallysimply's review

dark funny tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

dumaurier's review

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

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

elauren113's review

dark funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

queergoth_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

I only really recently discovered Stephen Graham Jones and I really enjoyed the other books I've read by him but this one wasn't my favourite. It's written as if someone is describing a film to you, which is really interesting but I found it hard to follow in some places.  

While parodying the convoluted slasher franchises we have all come to love, it feels exactly like one which is both good and bad. I get my slasher fix but I also find it hard to view it as anything other than a b-movie slasher. I don't know how to explain that well over text but basically I'm finding it hard to rate higher than I rate a slasher sequel. 

Honestly, I might have loved this more if I hadn't read My Heart Is A Chainsaw first. It has a lot of the same elements but MHIAC has so much more that I couldn't help comparing the two. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Gore, and Violence