Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Gone by Michael Grant

15 reviews

asarahguslol's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Child death

Moderate: War, Violence, Racial slurs, and Xenophobia

m4ferglez's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

A wonderful start to a wonderful series. Lord of the flies meets X-Men in the most gruesome wsy you can imagine. Grant is a master at portraying brutally realistic situations that come along with his premise. 

I do find it at times hard to believe how bloodthirsty some of the kids are, and the coyote/darkness scenes can get pretty repetitive, but otherwise a wonderful novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Torture, Gore, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Murder, Ableism, Death, Child death, Blood, Gun violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Child abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Domestic abuse, Vomit, and Excrement

sitrisummoned's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Violence, Gore, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Torture, Child death, Murder, and Death

Minor: Racism

slatattack's review against another edition

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

1.5

The plot of this book makes little sense and falls apart in order to write more books. The blinking out lord doesn’t work and just seems to be written in in order to keep Sam and Caine in the FAYZ. 

The explicit depictions of bulimia are unnecessary and not really plot relevant. As too is the ableism and racism. Little Pete didn’t have to be autistic there is no plot reason for it at all and it is written very poorly and very stereotypically and is a very ableist and infantilising portrayal. It seems as though some characters were written as ableist and racist so the author could get away with saying slurs/racist comments. And Astrids response to Pete being called the r-slur is disgusting and ableist as hell against high support needs autistics. 

I finished the book but only because I hate DNFing. The storyline was clunky and had many plot holes and the writing was poor. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Gore

Moderate: Racism and Ableism

arielcg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Confinement, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, Torture, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Kidnapping

123urmom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Ableism, Death, Eating disorder, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Murder, Grief, Medical trauma, Torture, Vomit, Body horror, Blood, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Kidnapping, and Racism

i live in a small town where slurs are said all the time. i read the rword more times than i’ve heard it in my life???? holy shit????

loz1327's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, and Racial slurs

villainessreads's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

My biggest gripe is how the characters of Edilio and Pete were handled. Quinn is openly and blatantly racist against Edilio and he's not really punished for it. He's still a "good guy" at the end. There's no narrative pushback for calling Edilio a slur like there is for Pete's slurs. I kept reading, but it never stopped being uncomfortable. I don't know how the author is normally a great ally and failed to see how horrible it would be for a PoC to read how Edilio was treated by the narrative. He's practically their housekeeper: cleans up their mess but never gets any narrative credit for his contributions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Eating disorder, Ableism, Body horror, Gore, Racism, Alcohol, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Xenophobia, Torture, Racial slurs, Child death, Blood, Gun violence, and Death

rakktels's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Car accident, Eating disorder, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Addiction

0pen_b00ks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Bullying, Body shaming, Gun violence, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Vomit, Violence, Eating disorder, Body horror, Blood, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Gore, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal death