Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Matéria Escura by Blake Crouch

119 reviews

anntharai's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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, and Injury/Injury detail

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

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

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.5

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, and Injury/Injury detail

alexiab's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

WOW I am blown away by the layers of emotion that were scattered through this epic multiverse story. I love how the plot kept surprising me and the way the multiverse concept was handled was very smart, which added a lot to an already exciting story.

I wasn’t expecting this introspective take on how much of who we are is our choices and how much is fate, and the reflection on what identity really means all added some wonderful depth. Loving it all. 10/10 experience, I loved every moment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, and Murder

chipkalee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

3.75

A very interesting read. I loved the use of the multiverse here, it was imaginative and gripping. The story surprised me at multiple points. Our primary Jason did irritate me at times, and I could have done with less romance in the book. But overall, good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Blood and Kidnapping

Minor: Abortion

kmayatte's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Abortion, and Death of parent

corirarrick2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Medical content

joshuas_space's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual content, Torture, Abortion, and Alcohol

whatathymeitwas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

Well that hit like a truck full of bricks. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lindseyrenee's review against another edition

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

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

5.0

Incredible 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Murder

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

bluedesi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Really struggled reading this book because I wasn’t in the right mental mind space to read something this intense & dark but also because I felt as if I knew where it was going in the beginning. I will say I was surprised by the book as it started to delve deeper into the science (which was super hard to understand ps) and picked up more speed but it did spiral out of control as the climax happened.

I am grateful for the happy ending however. It was intense reading all the other Jasons coming out of the woodwork to basically force Daniela and Charlie to stay with them instead but I liked the ending scene with all of them parting to give them a path. 

I felt the exploration of different realities was only interesting to read when Jason was with Amanda and I wish she had stuck around but hopefully she’s happy somewhere. Also, the whole security craziness of the lab Jason2 came from was never fully explained - why were they just killing everybody?!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

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