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eldritch_ace's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief
Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Rape, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
toastrats's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Blood
Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, and Infidelity
Minor: Rape and Fire/Fire injury
mxpringle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- 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
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Car accident, and Alcohol
11black_cats's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail
introverted_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Sexual violence
Minor: Cancer
polargare's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Violence, Blood, Car accident, and Death of parent
breezer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Murder
Moderate: Rape
asourceoffiction's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
When things start to ramp up from about half way through, you can totally see the point of the slow burn until then. You've got to know all the characters just well enough to predict and dread the impending carnage.
When things do start to escalate (and it happens fast!), you can tell that making the reader informed and the victims ignorant is completely intentional; I wanted to yell at the book every time someone said "come on in" to a knock at the door, or brandished a useless gun. It made it quite fun through the tension.
I flew through the second half after savouring the first. This is definitely a classic with a proper traditional horror feel.
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Rape and Car accident
erafact's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Rape, Cannibalism, and Car accident
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Set in a rural area in the 70's, lots of slurs thrown around. A man catches his wife cheating, then beats her and rapes her over the next couple (?) Weeks. Several children die. A dog is killed but not graphically, we just find its body.risemini's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol