Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

5 reviews

naomi_k's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical trauma, Gore, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, War, and Body horror

Minor: Kidnapping and Sexual content

mimmixoxo's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Body horror, War, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Death, Violence, Murder, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Drug use

Minor: Kidnapping, Mental illness, Stalking, Torture, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Deportation, Gore, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

sarahamuller1's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Gore, Body horror, and Death

Minor: Gun violence and Death of parent

erinsbookshelves's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Blood, Gore, Violence, Death, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Gun violence and Sexual content

annettewolf's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

The dedication page on this book reads "For all the girls who feel too much." So I already knew this book was written for me. Then it turns out the protagonist is bi, same as me. And oh look, all the imagery and country names and religions are references to elements of Paganism. It feels like this book was written exactly, solely, for me. Like Saft knows my heart, intimately, and wrote the book that my heart wanted.

Is this a gothic mystery full of adventure and romance? Yeah. Do the settings breathe and come to life so much that I swear you can smell them off the page? Yep. Does the plot start a little slow, then build up with careful intimacy, so that one look lasts years but three days pass by in a blink? Absolutely. Everything about this writing is just so damn good. We linger in all the right moments. We speed up for all the action, so that my eyes wanted to be even faster to find out what happens next. The descriptions of the smells are unparalleled. The character interactions are vibrant, heart-wrenchingly real, in all their tenderness and cruelty.

By the time I got to the haunted mansion setting, I didn't want to put the book down. And I honestly could have read 300 more pages of just the yearning. It was so good. And the realistic way relationships evolve and change over time and distance. And the way the climax was built on empathy as the ultimate strength. I loved so, so much about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Medical content

Moderate: Body horror, Death, and Murder

Minor: Violence, Sexual content, and Gun violence