Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Desperation by Stephen King

22 reviews

marrocke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

lolra's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

yodamordecai'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Blood, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Xenophobia

violetturtledove's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This one gets started with the tension pretty quickly, there is a creepy and unsettling atmosphere right from the start and the characters come second. Not that the characters are bad, but there isn't the usual depth of backstory that I usually notice in King's books. There's plenty of gruesome body horror in this, and although the creepy atmosphere dies down a bit by the end, the ending at least feels satisfying (endings generally being a weakness in King's longer books).
Ultimately is I don't think it's going to be one of my favourites but i DO want to look up 'The Regulators' which is a companion book to this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Blood, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism and Death of parent

Minor: Racial slurs

hannahkate's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage

goodolmc's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol

karamelka_kar19's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, and Murder

marleens's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book was a wild ride. Lots of gore and violence, but also a great setting with a lonely highway and a creepy desert town. As usual with King I loved getting all the different POVs. There were a few character interactions that I didn’t like, but most of it was great, and of course it’s always a good time when a group of strangers has to band together to defeat the forces of evil. The weird language that is often used by the evil in the book did confuse me sometimes, I wonder if I was supposed to understand it, maybe it’s references to other King books I haven’t read yet? Something else that should have bothered me was the major theme of religion. Lots of God and prayers in this book, and I would normally have stayed far away from it, but weirdly it worked well in the story and with the characters, and didn’t bother me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Xenophobia, and Grief

Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Slavery, and Suicide attempt

tle_1994's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Blood, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Murder

kbaxter21's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, and Murder