Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The September House by Carissa Orlando

302 reviews

spacecataz's review

5.0

ohhhhh i loved it so much. at first you're like hmm this lady is kind of detached and maybe sucks but i like her anyway? but the more i learned about her the more i liked her.

i was set to be disappointed when

they were going to have her institutionalized and she'd accepted everything was in her head and then it wasn't! i was so glad it was real.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, and Blood

Minor: Forced institutionalization

ssummar's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Dementia

alexis_hope22's review

dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

Unexpected, fun, and poignant

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

cortnyhelmick's review

adventurous dark funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Blood, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

writerbowen72's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, and Blood

saraavowlerr's review

adventurous dark funny tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

j_j_ranvier's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

I really liked this twisted on the haunted house narrative. Fully ready for it to be the usual "buy house, find out it's scare, leave or destroy it". Then it jumps to 4 years after them buying it and boom, she's still there just "dealing" with the monsters.
It was gonna be a 5 star but it did go from subtle to unsubtle with its haunted house as

domestic abuse allegory

which left it with nowhere to escalate about halfway through. 
That said, it did do one of my favorite things which is

skirt the "everything has a reasonable explanation" trope and go full throttle into the supernatural.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Gore

sdin94's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Gore, Torture, and Kidnapping

krig30's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.75

It took me 2 tries to get into the book. It felt like the first half of the book was so slow and a lot of it felt kind of like a “so what” sort of set up. The main character feels relatable in how she just doesn’t seem to gaf about what is going on in the house. I think the second half of the book really picks up and actually pulled me in.

I was a bit convinced there for a bit that this was somehow all something she had imagined but wasn’t too upset with Hal’s death given how he had treated her. Even if she claimed things were getting better

I thought the ending was a bit cliche but finished up the book fairly well. I will note that the writing about the domestic violence was a bit of a shock and should have been flagged as a note somewhere as a warning. Those parts were very hard to get through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Self harm

nnanapop's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Gore