Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims

6 reviews

vstarlight's review

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cannibalism, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Cursing, and Panic attacks/disorders

phantompansy's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gore, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Confinement, Mental illness, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Addiction

amyspag's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

I almost DNFd this book twice, it wasn't what I expected at all from the synopsis. I'm still not 100% on the rating because I keep flip flopping between this being fairly slow and hard to get into and it intriguing me. This book is quite gory at times and as I was expecting a standard thriller this took me by suprise, it's way more of a horror. I think horror fans would eat this up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Cursing, Cannibalism, and Blood

elinthenilsson's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Cursing, Deadnaming, and Death

klavin_lovell's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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 won't pretend that it wasn't The Magnus Archives that brought me here. I discovered the podcast this year and fell in love with it and as soon as I discovered Jonny had a novel I had to get a copy.

Now I wouldn't recommend reading the book expecting another Magnus Archives as that's not what it is. It is, however, fantastic.
It can become gruesome so I would recommend practicing caution but if you've listened to the more violent Magnus Archives episodes it should be bearable. 
In my opinion the story is fascinating, an intelligent statement about morality and self preservation. The ideologies that may come with one's experiences and backgrounds. It can be a little difficult to follow with every chapter being a different narrative and keeping up with the large main cast can be tricky if you don't have the best memory, like myself.
However the cast is diverse and some characters are very memorable, Jonny has shown his skill with a wide range of characters and themes and I am definitely looking forward to his next project.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Addiction, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Child death, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

lavendl's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cannibalism, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, and Police brutality

Minor: Cursing, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Deadnaming, and Genocide