Reviews tagging 'Gore'

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

6 reviews

arlaubscher's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Grief, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Body horror, Medical content, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Classism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Dementia, Confinement, Mental illness, Gore, and Infertility

pumpkinbaby's review

inspiring mysterious sad medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

discarded_dust_jacket's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

3.0

The best works of speculative fiction don’t just tell stories about aliens or spaceships or futuristic technology, they tells stories about what it means to be human—stories about relationship, grief, compassion. That’s what Sequoia Nagamatsu has accomplished here.

This is strong story-telling precisely because, despite involving things like talking pigs, euthanasia rollercoasters, robotic dogs, and mortuary services that liquify a loved one and turn them into an ice sculpture, these stories are mainly about people. They’re about family, they’re about community, they’re about hope, and they’re about love.

It didn’t get a higher rating simply because by about 75% of the way through, I had mentally checked out and was kind of forcing myself to continue. But I would still recommend this book to any sci-fi lover.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicide, Death, Terminal illness, and Gore

emdcairou's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Body horror, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Death

Minor: Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, and Grief

shapesandcolours's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Alcohol, Medical content, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer

prettyfunctional's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Perfect for readers of the Overstory & Cloud Atlas. It balances a blend of realism and fantasy. This book lives somewhere between hope and despair and will definitely stick with you for a while

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Body horror, Terminal illness, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, and Animal death

Minor: Gore