jon_b_96 's review for:

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

5.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book is terrible, I love it. Cormac McCarthy manages to write a western novel in a way that makes the era seem alien from the descriptive language to the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

The content warnings don’t do enough to represent the brutality present in this novel.