Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The September House by Carissa Orlando

195 reviews

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

kaylinvm94's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

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

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

keanusmom's review

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

chip8401's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Very gory. And creepy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

kit_icarus8's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

hannnahcp's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Violence, and Murder

hufflepuffbiologybuff's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

This book was interesting from the very first chapter. It was difficult to put down and a curiosity as to what is going to happen next. 
This was a great ghost story from beginning to end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

christinedodgen's review

dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I listened to the audio version of this book.  The narrator was perfect for the main character & good for the secondary characters. The story was well written. I was impressed by the fortitude of the main character, Margaret.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence