Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Leech by Hiron Ennes

74 reviews

swell_gal's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Weirdest book I've ever read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child death, Violence, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Gore, and Pregnancy

thehmkane's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

Every hour or so, this book delivered a line or a concept or an event that made me think, gee, this it the genderiest book I've ever read. That holds true to the end. It's complex. It's unsettling. And it is determinedly not cis.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Animal death, Colonisation, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Medical content, Child death, Bullying, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Grief, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Stillbirth

theafictionado's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

Gross - but in a very effective way! This is a distressing but very powerful book, using freaky sci-fi parasites to open an exploration of the many ways people can "leech" off one another and rob people of their bodily autonomy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Body horror, Gore, and Medical content

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

hollyko's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Medical trauma, Child death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Rape, Miscarriage, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Medical content, and Pregnancy

captcapy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gore, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Rape, Medical content, Child death, and Infertility

Minor: Genocide

dannilmp's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

For a debut novel by Ennes, I was very impressed at the writing! How can one author make me feel so much compassion for a parasite compared to the human race? This book gave me The Haunting on Hill House vibes at time. Isolated from the rest of the world in a chateux, our doctor has to figure out what is trying to compete against his kind completely on his own. Can he figure it out in time while the chateux crumbles around him?

The setting of this novel really added to the atmosphere, while this book does have its many many scences involving blood and gore, it is the ambience that really shines through. The characters seem to grow and devlop as we learn some of their more darker secrets of their pasts. Again I am blown away that here I was feeling so much sympathy and even rooting for the parasites of Inultus over the humans at one point!

However, I feel the ending wasn't quite as upto par with the rest of the story and the ending left me feeling quite unsatisfied. I don't think the last question in the blurb is answered and given the information we get throughout the story, it's not quite simple to come up with your own conclusions as they really are just wild speculation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, and Abandonment

chemicallykat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Violence, Gore, Body horror, and Suicide

sphinxofblackquartz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Chronic illness and Alcohol

maryellen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Body horror, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

missbrookss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual harassment, Murder, Body horror, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Gore, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, and Child death