Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

10 reviews

asteinke's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Gore, Body horror, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Car accident and Infertility

shadyhabanero's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Gore, Body horror, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, and Car accident

vixenreader's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Both a cautionary tale and a tribute to motherhood and grief, this novella examines the dangers of sacrifice with empathy and humanity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Suicide, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Death, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

Moderate: Infertility, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Vomit

Be aware that there are scenes of mutilation, amputation, finding a dead body, disfigurement of the body, dysfunctional familial relationships, and ghosts.

chapkip's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, and Child death

sargasso_c's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

A piercing and essential exploration of maternal grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Self harm, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Gore, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Vomit

mfrisk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This is a tough book to rate because it’s a short read. Chris our main character perfectly embodies the cycles of grief and attempting to find some way to move forward in your life. This author does a great job of delving into emotions through horror and portraying characters that are strong willed and complex when facing uncertainty. I didn’t love the ending which is the only reason I’m taking off one star. It was interesting but didn’t quite feel complete. Look forward to reading more from this author in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Self harm, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Alcohol, Suicide, Gore, Body horror, Violence, Car accident, and Suicidal thoughts

kristinajoy07's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Body horror, Child death, and Death

Minor: Infertility

madarauchiha's review

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

Weird and creepy story about grief. Well written, interesting, the supernatural portion wasn't goofy and I appreciate that it didn't go fully scooby doo. I thought it handled the heavy subject matter fairly well. 

It's an incredibly white book. Zero diversity. Which like I'm not exactly demanding because useless authors shoehorning useless sidekicks of color or black sidekicks to white main characters is the LAST thing I want to read.



major suicide, suicide ideation, gore, injuries, blood, self harm, death, grief, alcohol, 

medium medical content, infertility, pregnancy, car accidents, 

minor sexual content, alcohol, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Grief, Alcohol, Death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, Infertility, Car accident, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

theliteraryhooker's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Grief, Death, and Gore

Minor: Alcohol, Infertility, Car accident, and Emotional abuse

leahrosereads's review

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.25

First and fair warning, I would definitely look at the trigger warnings for this one.  Here are the main ones I noted: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, self harm, child death.  

My eyes didn't stay dry for long while reading this book. Chris's pain of losing her son is so palpable.  And so is her love for him.  This is a fantastic, horrifying novella.  The writing is excellent, and the story instantly sucked me in.  I couldn't stop reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Self harm