Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

33 reviews

kennedyasdfghjkl's review

adventurous dark fast-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

4.75

Nearly 5 stars, only less because nothing can compare to the first book. Getting Jack & Jill's story was unexpected, but so enlightening. I loved Jack in Every Heart, and grew even fonder of her as I saw where she came from. The twins' tragedy makes even more sense, and becomes even more inevitable, when you see the conditions that raised them. The author's voice is matter-of-fact and fantastical at the same time, painting the moors as the loving horror that could only breed Jack & Jill. I am obsessed with every piece of this story, and will read anything Seanan McGuire writes forever.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Violence

grace_b_3's review

adventurous dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual content

nerdysread's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• 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? Yes

4.5

Préféré au premier. Jack et Jill etaient deux persos qui m'intriguaient beaucoup alors forcement un livre avec elle j'allais pas dire non. Et franchement j'adore. Si tous les livres ont une qualité superieure au précédent ça va vite devenir ma série fav

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, and Blood

Minor: Fatphobia and Body shaming

asparagushead's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Child death, Gore, and Murder

cj13's review

dark medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Gore and Violence

lola77's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

Whimsical yet dark

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Murder, Gore, Blood, and Death

meagangrace's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Gore

anastasia_raf's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Medical content, Fatphobia, Child abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Kidnapping

tatiana_luz's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-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

4.0

Jack and Jill were not my favorite characters in Every Heart a Doorway, but I prefer this installment of the series over the first one. I think largely has to do with the fact that there was less to cover in terms of world building this time/few characters to keep track of. 

I enjoyed the tragedy that this was from the start, and how I was left hoping for a better outcome as I got attached to certain characters. A lot of people failed Jack and Jill along the way and they didn't have much control. That being said Jack still chose Jill at a detriment to herself. This only solidify my dislike for Jill as a person, though the book does a good job at explain that she, too, is a victim of her circumstances. The choices she was able to make were terrible, and she never thought of herself as being at fault.

I also disliked that 

Alexis was killed: a total bury your gays moment.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, and Emotional abuse

schnaucl's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

I really liked this one.    There are several bits of narration in omniscient third person where the narrator talks about it as a story and it's lovely and well written.  It reminds me of the opening of In the Shadow of Spindrift House.

Both characters were interesting, as were the Moors.  I wish it had been a little longer

and I was disappointed that it ends with Jack and Jill arriving home so we don't get to see what happens after they return at the end of Every Heart a Doorway,

but it was a lovely little story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, and Death

Minor: Child death