Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Candelaria by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

7 reviews

saltysnails's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

This is one of the most confusing books I have ever read. I think it could have benefited from a lot of editing a huge amount of potential it just needs so much work

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Sexual violence, Blood, Gore, Rape, Pregnancy, Murder, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, and Body horror

amarchetta's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

I loved this book. It is so complicated and intricate that I'm sure it could take years of study to analyze this work. But it was so interesting and funny and crazy that I didn't want to slow down. It moved between being clearly satirical and being so sincere that I cried a bit at the end :'( Just fantastic.

(Plus, I love to find a surprise abortion storyline in fiction!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Body horror, Death, Gore, Pregnancy, Abortion, Violence, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcoholism, Grief, Alcohol, Sexual content, Racism, Addiction, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

caro1121's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense 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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Violence, Grief, Drug abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Abortion, Death, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Drug use, Murder, and Blood

I had such high hopes for this book! I’m glad I did not buy it physically. This story took a turn and the way that it was written was confusing. It was jumping back and forth. The magical realism element threw me off too, I wasn’t sure what to believe while reading it. The characters/daughters were such terrible people that they made it unbearable to get through. I did however like the plot twist. I don’t know if they explained why everything was happening, tuned out a bit towards the end, but I would’ve liked to understand what was going on.

tesshersh's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Abortion

zarlynsnook's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

i don't completely understand what this book is about but i absolutely enjoyed reading it😁🥰
this book is fun, crazy and chaotic on all levels.
at first i thought that this book would be a  sadly dramatic story about a complex family dynamics but the author scale down on the drama and put in so much humor, craziness and some sort of magic into it. generational trauma but make it apocalyptic😅
I just love it when women writes women so amazingly that no matter how unhinged or uncomprehensible the story is, i still ended up enjoying it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Animal death, Infidelity, Gore, and Abortion

funkyauntjules's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

5.0

no you don't understand. i'm in love with this book. about 1/4 of the way in i knew i needed to read it again. and then again. this book has everything. EVERYTHING. melissa manages to take one thing and veer it in the opposite direction. oh you're crying? now you're laughing. oh you're scared? here's a wholesome, gorgeous, poetic moment. i wanted this story to be six hundred pages longer. i want this book etched into my headstone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Addiction

_morgreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Abortion, Cannibalism, Death, Blood, Body horror, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Gore, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt