Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

185 reviews

scantykelp's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, and Animal cruelty

minapea's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

Lost for most of it, but also intrigued for the whole thing- can’t say I ever want to read this book again and there were several times I could have really used a trigger warning, but if you like surrealism this might be the book for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Suicide, Rape, Torture, and Sexual assault

caoimhemia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Torture, Violence, Suicide, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

anexcessofebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

What a shit ending.  The whole tone of the book changed at the end and the author was trying to be too funny in a way that didn't fit with the rest of the tone of the book.

I liked it up until the end and would have rated it 4+.  It was weird AF throughout, which was fine/appealing, but there are just too many things that are irreconcilable.  Biggest gripe is

Carolyn being essentially a God sometimes and completely oblivious/helpless at others.  Her solution to the whole apocalypse she brought on was to turn Steve into the sun and have it rain bread?  Dafuq?  Just undo some stuff which is apparently an option as alluded to by Father who I now just picture in a bathrobe and fluffy slippers drinking coffee as he doles out fatherly advice in a calm tone; not at all what you're led to believe throughout the whole book

It's clearly setup for a sequel, but I don't think I'll pick it up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Torture

random19379's review against another edition

funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Child death, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Gore, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Grief, Murder, Body horror, Medical content, Suicide, and War

Moderate: Rape and Incest

kermittuesday's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Deeply weird, but very good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Torture, Rape, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Suicide, War, Gun violence, Death, and Child death

Minor: Car accident

hilarym's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

1.0

Really confused for most of the book,  not sure what the plot was. Kept reading bc was told a surprising ending, but had to read other reviews to understand what happened. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Blood

cassie7e's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

I picked this only knowing it was dark and weird. It has similar dark vibes as Seanan McGuire's Alchemical Journeys series, which I loved! Creepy old abilities and beings in the modern day, but even darker and more morally twisted, and on a larger scale. It's meticulously elaborately plotted, especially leading up to the climax ~2/3 the way through, whereupon we get more character growth and trauma reckoning in the aftermath.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Murder, Torture, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, Gore, Rape, and Gun violence

Minor: Car accident, Homophobia, and Death of parent

heartlocket's review against another edition

adventurous challenging fast-paced

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

5.0

A truly original story. I will say that at no point while reading could I tell you what would happen next but it always happened in a way that made sense (at least as much sense as it was supposed to) and I trusted that there would be a resolution that made sense. Check relevant trigger warnings but I completely recommend this book if you’re looking for something that you’ve definitely never seen before

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Child abuse

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Death of parent and Death

sersi's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Suicide, Murder, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Rape