Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Battle Royale: Remastered by Koushun Takami

90 reviews

velveteenrabbit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Child death, War, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Cursing, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Rape, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Adult/minor relationship

vvabecca's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Dysphoria, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Mental illness, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Genocide, Medical trauma, Bullying, Car accident, Addiction, Grief, Gore, Body horror, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Classism, and Injury/Injury detail

luisaaaa's review

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

I was reading two different translations of this book in tandem, one on my phone and one a a physical copy. The people in the reviews complaining about poor translation/writing probably read the older translation, which I agree does read as more of a rough draft/ literal translation. The actual remastered version of this story was WOW. so so good. the writing was well done and still easy to understand, and the plot twists especially the end were crazy. lots of gore, but lots of fun.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicide

m0ribund's review

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, and Blood

clovetra's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Rape, War, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, Vomit, and Suicide

hath's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Wow. I have never read so fast in my life. This book consumed my life completely. I still don't know how the author managed to help me keep track of over 42 characters, but I loved reading about every. Single. One. 

I was worried this book would just be violence for the sake of it, but the thought experiments and human relationships and friendships shown throughout gave it so much to digest.

It's got everything you could want and more! If you're not faint of heart and love a dystopia then I'd highly recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Mass/school shootings

excritos's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

0.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Bullying, Body horror, Sexism, Rape, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Car accident, Child abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Death

ajourneythroughpages's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I love this book! So good. Read it about 4 times now and it was still just as good as I remembered. Not rated 5 stars because of some sexism and homophobia. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexism

Minor: Torture, Suicide, Rape, and Homophobia

rightwhrleftme's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Blood, Self harm, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Rape, and Gore

kait_sixcrowsbooks's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

Perhaps the worst book I read this year. Dear lord.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Gore, and Death

Minor: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Homophobia