Reviews tagging 'Gore'

A Little Life: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 by Hanya Yanagihara

493 reviews

jojomaur's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Violence, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Medical content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Car accident, Child abuse, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Gore, and Sexual violence

marmorienkeli's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.25

horrifying, sad, interesting, boring, annoying, hopeful, disturbing,

and please check trigger warnings before reading

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Child abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, and Suicide

Moderate: Drug use, Car accident, and Child death

kolbiet's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Rape, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Violence, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Child death, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Eating disorder

tashilovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

Just wow

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Self harm, Physical abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Rape, Emotional abuse, Grief, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

barnesd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

2.5

Beautifully written, horrible story. Very depressing and torturing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Gore, Grief, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Addiction

Minor: Child death, Car accident, and Vomit

ramennoodsnoods's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

This book will stick with me for a long time. I enjoyed the ‘stream of consciousness’ type of writing style and the changes in perspective. Definitely heavy topics but I really do think that they were purposeful for depicting character development. Would only recommend to those comfortable hearing about the experience of living with trauma and depictions of it. While heavy in traumatic topics, i didn’t think that these depictions were unnecessary graphic, while still being explicit. Some may disagree with this but I think that there is a lot of subtext to these instances which are necessary for character development. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Body shaming, Addiction, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Torture, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Gore, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Drug use, Death, Chronic illness, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship

avenevs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

This book is immensely painful. The author wrote this story beautifully and it was a marvelous read, fun at times even. I cried on too many pages to count or admit to but I couldn’t help but feel attached to each character or disgusted by others. Everything is so in depth and no detail is unappreciated. I loved this book, and I absolutely despise this book. The trauma this book caused and also resurfaced is something I was absolutely not ready for. But at the same time I was able to fret through the book the same way I got through my own traumas in life. I cannot believe I was ever excited to read this book but I am thankful to have read it. Good luck to anyone who dares to break this novels spine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Gore, Grief, Self harm, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Drug use, Racism, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicide, Child death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Car accident, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

18ksmith's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, Mental illness, Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Dementia, Ableism, and Drug abuse

Minor: Homophobia

rubyloo___'s review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Trafficking, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

dragonsandfoxes's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Dementia, Drug use, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Bullying, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Torture, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Addiction, Grief, Cancer, Gore, Sexual harassment, and Trafficking