Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

452 reviews

becinneverland's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

whatsemmareading's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, and Murder

ivriab's review against another edition

4.25

My jaw was on the floor so many times. I felt the end was a bit rushed, they tried to just tie everything up super quickly. I had several questions like

how did they tell the authorities about everything? What was the reaction to the volume of women affected? Did the authorities find the other bodies so the other families could lay them to rest?

I felt like these missing items make it to where I can’t give this a 5 star. I will warn this book is gruesome, graphic, gory, and horrifying at times - please look at the warnings before reading. I would consider this splatterpunk. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ohsunnyaa's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming and Fatphobia

sydryan13's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

stayceee24's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

4.25

I get the feeling this is a book that nobody should really like. The trigger warnings are endless, and if I was rating this book on the first 40% it would be rated a lot lower, because it was very disjointed and hard to follow at first. 

Once the pace picked up, so did the quality of the story and I kept going to see what happened to Julia, to see what Paul was really capable of, and to that extent, to see what Claire was truly capable of. If I were Claire, I’d have done much worse than what she did. He deserved much, much worse than just being shot twice.

Overall though, I actually really enjoyed the story, when I probably shouldn’t.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

ksuppes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

chelle22's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

robin_reads's review against another edition

One of these days there will be a contemporary thriller that doesn’t revolve around horrendous r*pe. 
This is purely shock value and torture p*rn. Literally. 
I hate that I let BookTok recommend this to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

real_pansy's review

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail