Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica

114 reviews

egg_queen's review against another edition

2.0

dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy

arch_angl3's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A lot of complicated feelings around this book. I think the gore got a bit repetitive, but part of me feels that was the point- to desensitize you to the horror happening. The ending left me emotionally gutted and raw in the best way though, and I really enjoyed it all around though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy

So many trigger warnings. It is a heavy book and does not pull punches.

mcplen's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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If you can’t deal with body horror, look the other way. This book is very strange and disturbing. It’s the first of Bazterrica’s I’ve read, and it may be the last. I felt like the book was building to something bigger, something unexpected, but the ending felt predictable and mildly disappointing, and fell flat for me. I was hoping for some bold message, but it never revealed itself to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Physical abuse, Self harm

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gore, Rape, Blood

Minor: Animal death

readnrunml's review against another edition

5.0

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: No

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Brutal, poetic, horrifying 

love?

story about a woman in a convent-like society in a post apocalypse world. She meets a newcomer and reflects on her past life when she was wandering. I couldn't put this book down! A short and fast read although I wanted it to last!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Rape, Violence, Injury/Injury detail

though it's pretty gory it is hopeful in the end. I hope this is a first book in the series! The ending death(s) we're not explicitly known.

lisacanteven's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was unexpected in many ways. Years after life seems to end, there is a group called the Sacred Sisterhood who live safely sequestered away from the world. There is a hierarchy that helps the women remain passive until things start to unravel with the arrival of a new woman. This is all portrayed through the journal of the narrator. There are no chapters because this is completely written by the narrator, which made it very different than most books. I usually would hate this, but the pacing worked so well. At the halfway point things started to make sense and I really enjoyed the ride.

I wouldn't compare this to Tender is the Flesh. Not much about it besides the genre is similar. Both are horror and both explore the horrors with which our world is headed for. The depravity is still there, although in The Unworthy it is more subtle than TITF. 

Does the dog die?

In this book the dog (cat in this case) does die, and it is a bit traumatic so prepare yourself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Excrement, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

emimli's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Rape, Sexual violence

pbucolo's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent

dmh44's review against another edition

1.5

dark sad tense medium-paced

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I’m going to be honest, I hated this book, which is rare for me. Came very close to DNF’ing this—I’ve never had to work so hard to push through a <200 page novella. 

I can respect the author’s writing skill, but this was very much Not For Me. It just felt like neverending misery/torture porn... it was nauseating at times.  While the prose style was unique, the post-apocalyptic setting and the underlying “mystery” felt like a retread of many books that have gone before—not much new to offer there. 

I truly don’t get the hype for this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder

candaceh1990's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

csmoke85's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic