Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

13 reviews

pianoman543's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Domestic abuse, and Incest

Moderate: Sexism, Vomit, Gore, and Colonisation

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative 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? No

3.0

Rounding up to a three, but this book was actually very hard for me to rate. The story held my attention, and I liked it better than The Ghost Bride, but I was so deeply uncomfortable with the relationship between Ji Lin and Shin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, and Incest

katastrophi's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This has me enthusiastic about reading her other works. I was transported immediately into the world she built and absorbed in the tale. I appreciated Ji Lin's intelligence, resourcefulness, loyalty, and ferocity.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Murder, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Colonisation

Moderate: Gore, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Sexism, Stalking, Slavery, and Child death

horationelson's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Death, Sexism, Colonisation, and Medical content

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Gun violence

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Gore

ruuntvoces's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Child abuse

veronicachp's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

I kept waiting and hoping this book would rope me in and I'd become actually invested in the characters or the story, but it really didn't unfortunately. I enjoyed the premise, I enjoy a good mystery, but it kind of felt like it had too many irons in the fire and TOO many mysteries for me to be really engaged with any of them. Without spoiling, after the MacFarlane storyline was resolved, it felt like the story just went haywire with twists and turns and lost the plot, so to speak. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Miscarriage

jazhandz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.25

I have a three strike policy with books: writing style, characters, plot. I could tell right away that I didn’t care for the writing style (strike one), and Ren was the only character I cared about (strike two, given how many characters this book is stuffed with). But the plot hooked me, so I kept reading. I would describe this choice as a mistake. The payoff was incredibly not worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, and Sexual harassment

el13's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

Writing was excellent. The story unfolded in a really captivating way. It is a bit twisted, mysterious, and dark, with magical realism, reflective of the land of Malay and the sociopolitical environments at the time. But, I think it was a bit too dark for me. It did leave me with a lot of questions still, but I think it did so intentionally, as it was a mystical story. Finally, and most importantly, the love story was NOT IT FOR ME DAWG. It felt so wrong. I definitely felt the way Ji Lin's mother did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Vomit, Blood, Cannibalism, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Gun violence, Incest, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual violence, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, and Misogyny

bonnienoire's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Gore, Gun violence, Fatphobia, and Confinement

Minor: Vomit and Sexual harassment

turtlebrainlibrarian's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Incest