Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley

9 reviews

snazzy10101's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

jesus christ

i have things to say about this book but i will need to think on it first 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Dementia

_rowan_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Animal death, Grief, Death, Violence, Blood, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, and Animal cruelty

ellenigrace's review

dark mysterious

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Animal death, Body horror, and Child abuse

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Animal cruelty, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Alcohol, Torture, Hate crime, Blood, and Confinement

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Blood, Bullying, Death, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Forced institutionalization

mrmokek's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

First horror novel I've read and I feel like it was a good introduction
Definitely got absorbed in it - it was very easy to read and didn't take long
Theme-wise it wasn't anything super special but that might be because I'm used to coming at books from an analytical angle and that might not apply for this genre
Had some loose ends that I felt could have been tied up -

the storyline about Richard's father's madness and his mother's exclusion from the town were focused on enough that I thought they would play a much more important part in the story, or at least receive some explanation (felt like a failed Chekhov's gun)

Pacing and atmosphere was good, creepy and sufficiently tragic
Enjoyed the rural gothic and the aspects that hit a little too close

(child suffers due to parents' inability to admit defeat/their own mistakes)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Torture, Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, and Sexual content

reading_bear's review

dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

thepuppeteer's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Animal death

Minor: Blood, Body horror, Murder, and Death of parent

zoenne's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

Atmospheric and engrossing, but left me vaguely disappointed. It felt a bit derivative, and the mysteries teased throughout the book did not really satisfy. Still ,I would recommend it for people interested in folk horror

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Animal death, and Mental illness

beccasbookcase's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Grief, and Mental illness