A review by thesholmes
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

challenging dark slow-paced

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

5.0

Probably the best book I've ever read. The prose is perfect, the imagery is flawless, the story is riveting, and it just does things that I've never seen a book do. As someone who's really desensitised to a lot of things, this one made me physically sick in the best possible way. Just a thrilling and horrifically beautiful read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cannibalism, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, War, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Torture, Pedophilia, Animal death, Gun violence, Body horror, Racism, Self harm, Blood, Death, Excrement, Genocide, Sexual assault, Child death, Colonisation, Gore, and Sexual violence

As someone who is fairly desensitised to most anything, this made me physically sick