Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Mordew by Alex Pheby

9 reviews

margog2310's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

tophokles's review against another edition

Damn, this was horribly paced. Like, the beginning is pretty intriguing, but nothing happens for about 150 pages or so. And by now I don't think this world or this writing is gonna captivate me. The protagonist is just an empty vessel that plot happens to.
There are mysteries coming up constantly but nothing is ever solved and what is happening is just either boring or needlessly gruesome.
I've gone ahead and spoiled myself as best as I could, but it doesn't seem like it's gonna get more interesting anytime soon (or at least paced better)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Pedophilia and Rape

pili_pi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Violence

freyagee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Infidelity, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

lissstik's review against another edition

it's just a heaping pile of garbage. the plot is agonizingly slow, which would have been okay by me, if only it wasn't pointless at the same time. absolutely everyone is evil and I don't want to read about the kid being horny for his friend every five pages. the "protagonist is so special" thing is also very much in your face the entire time, despite the fact that other than having magical powers the kid is not special at all. i was very excited for this book, since originally it looked like something I would have liked, but a big no from me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

deebaxreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexism

bobin's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Gore, Rape, and Violence

aturb92's review against another edition

It might not have been the right time for me, but the content was so dark. I needed a more hope filled story. The world was interesting but I couldn’t take one more bad thing happening. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Violence, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content

sunn_bleach's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.25

A good but somewhat frustrating book. Pheby excels in writing about the small things and the nuances, as with a dog’s perspective or the sarcastic glossary. He loses it at the bombastic action and “big magic” scenes, in which destruction and decay feel Michael Bay-ish. Still, I’d read the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Violence