Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

1018 reviews

stvrlitpages's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Addiction, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and War

mitrabird2010's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Pregnancy, Classism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Xenophobia, War, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Physical abuse, Murder, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Infertility, Genocide, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Confinement, Colonisation, Child death, and Animal death

rais's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, War, Sexual violence, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Excrement, and Grief

cida's review against another edition

Such an interesting composition in terms of mood. The book started of quite “fun” going to classes, school drama etc. and then suddenly plummeted into this fatal seriousness, panic and darkness that only became deeper as the book went on. The change in mood was a shock to the system and worked so incredibly well in conveying the feeling when war suddenly becomes a reality. A great study in power, war, oppression, abuse, trauma and most of all violence. I can’t stretch the violence part quite enough, it was much worse than I thought it would be, explicit and more terrible than any horror film I’ve seen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Sexual violence, Torture, Child death, Classism, Violence, War, Drug abuse, Murder, Colonisation, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Rape, Genocide, and Gore

chanson7908's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Very well written, as is everything I've read by Kuang. Just so gosh darn sad and angry, I couldn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Rape, Drug abuse, Gore, Death, Grief, Genocide, Sexual violence, and War

laughingkatana's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I strongly agree with all the positive praise this book has received. The main character deals with many conflicts that help develop her each time. It has a very interesting view of gods and worship which really explores humanity and morals in a way often not seen in fiction. The first third to first half of the book fully explains characters and the world and doesn't slow the pace or seem boring. Even though the entire book deals with hardships and rough circumstances, the last half of the book can get incredibly dark and detailed, it truly digs into how bad war can be and the toll it takes on people physically, mentally, emotionally, and societally. I hope the next two books continue this great story, and great writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, War, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Rape, Violence, Drug use, Torture, Colonisation, Death, and Child abuse

armerlin's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

saiesha_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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

4.5

Please check trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gore, Rape, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, and Genocide

dogphilosopher's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Spoiler

2 words: Baby Barrels

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Gore, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Infertility, Drug use, Genocide, Pregnancy, Addiction, and Torture

cassiacow's review

adventurous dark sad 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

4.75

Fuck. Wow.

I'm not okay and it's going to take me time to recover.

Some sections of this book are BRUTAL. As for the ending - I don't think Rin was justified, but I can see why she did what she did.

The fact that lots of it mirrors real life is... depressing. War is horrible. 

The only minor issue I have is the pacing - the last few chapters felt rushed and some of the characters suffered as a result of their stories being tied up too quickly. Other than that, I loved this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Racism, Rape, War, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Classism, and Drug use