Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

4 reviews

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

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

henrygravesprince's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Bullying, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Minor: Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Mass/school shootings, Alcoholism, and Self harm

davidrb's review

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Had high hopes, unfortunately it's just not that good. It had a lot of potential that it just got lost in. I'll still be checking out his more recent work: I've heard nothing but praise for his last two books!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Violence