Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Lord Loss by Darren Shan

5 reviews

johnathanwet's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I read this series as a child and can’t believe I got through them. I was such a scaredy cat over everything but absolutely loved these. Good news: the horror elements absolutely hold up.

What I didn’t remember was the misogynistic introduction to our main character. I was shocked but guiessi shouldn’t have been in a “boys” book, unfortunately.

This book is also veeery slow. High octane beginning slows into a crawl through the middle, before revving back up for the finale.

Ultimately a fun, easy read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

charlizardbookboi17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Animal death, Gore, Murder, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

darkefyres's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Body horror, Death of parent, Violence, Child death, Death, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, and Animal death

Minor: Infidelity and Medical content

paulina2k01's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

bybookandbone's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Lord Loss surprised me. It is my first book club book and I didn't expect too much from it. I like Darren Shan but the blurb didn't excite me. 
Well, I was wrong. I absolutely loved this book! While I really wish the MC wasn't named Grubbs (tbh all of the names bar Dervish and Meera are kinda terrible). 
The deaths and demons are much more graphic than I thought. In fact, I got this book in the children's section of my local library, bottom self even... So I might mention it to the librarians, this is a young adult book. It deals with family death, infidelity, metal health, mental health institutions and pretty graphic violence.

The story is somewhat meandering, which works for this particular book as so much of it is the set up for this world. It's a great first entry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Confinement

Moderate: Mental illness and Infidelity

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis