Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

16 reviews

loochysue's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Gun violence

Minor: Blood

clevelandbookgirl's review

4.5

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Vomit

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Sexual content, Alcohol, War

erica_reads_things's review

4.5

adventurous emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Such a good read! Took me a second to get into it but once I got passed the first fourth of the book I was HOOKED. Not only was it well written as a unique story, but it got me thinking about choices, life, what matters, what we live for. I liked it a lot. Also lots of spins that I did not see coming in the last third of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Kidnapping, Grief, Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking

anntharai's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book took me days to stop talking about, I think I convinced about twelve people to read it. It's such a cool take on the multi-dimensional thriller with some aspects I hadn't seen before. I am proud to say that I saw TWO plot things coming and that makes me happy. Because of this book, Blake Crouch is pretty much on my auto-read list now. 

There are several realities that just rip your frooken heart out and stamp on it, it leaves you with questions and arse backwards arguments you want to have with the characters and just. Wow. Yes. Do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

kyrstin_p1989's review

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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A sci-fi thriller, this book kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. It was interesting and well-written. The story is compelling, unsettling, and fantastical. parts of the science-y description/explanation were outside my realm of comprehension but all in all this book is incredibly accessible to all readers. The chapters are really long but the writing style made the book fly by for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

colleenward_'s review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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What. The. F❌❌❌.
Okay, I loved this book so much! I’m going through a period in time where the message of this plot really hit home and I appreciated it a lot —> What if you could do your life differently?

Blake Crouch delivers a mind-bending plot which moves the story along and keeps you wondering how everything will play out. 10/10 recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion