Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

16 reviews

kerttuli's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, and Gun violence

Moderate: Child death, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Minor: Infidelity and Alcohol

scholasticbookfairy's review against another edition

Lots of gore in first few pages

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Death, Violence, Murder, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

nightingale's review against another edition

So dark. So messed up. Just way too dark.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Gore, Cursing, Child death, Body horror, Blood, Rape, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Slavery, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Death

The sci-fi is really good. The world is really well designed and created but it's hectic it's a 18+ not for sensitive readers.

sillyduckie's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death, Grief, and Infidelity

alyssancoon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

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

3.0

The concept is really interesting, but, bare bones, it's a first world problem type of story. Very complex and dense. I felt like I needed to take notes to keep everything straight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Minor: Child death

crarmstrong's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

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

4.0

Gritty cyberpunk action packed ride. Very strong writing and interesting world building. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Gore, and Torture

Minor: Murder