Reviews tagging 'Death'

Something is Killing The Children, Vol. 2 : The House of Slaughter by James Tynion IV

23 reviews

regaliaofchaos's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Medical content, and Death of parent

hagwife's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Solid follow-up to the first volume! Hard to repeat the guy-punch that was Vol. 1 but I love the mix of lore and action.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

cyberarcanist's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

trollmila's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

rowanrelph's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

swimfast724's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? No

5.0

They kept up the momentum of the first volume which is great because I was worried they wouldn't keep up that level of interest/ intensity while simultaneously not rushing through the story. The art is really beautiful too. Not too scary but enough to add the fear element. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Grief

alainam's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Blood

steveatwaywords's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I'm settling in to this series (as yet not completed, apparently!) and I will finish the story arc before doing a full review, but here is what I thought of Volume 2:

Much like Vol. 1, this is a dark gorefest with an insidious cabal of PR-masters behind it. We learn more about each, the tension and action (if not the terror) is ramped up, but nothing is really resolved. Tynion is not afraid to shock us by losing important (or seemingly innocent) characters, but again this feels more like a need to shock than an essential plot point. The brief appearance of a character with seemingly conflicting motivations (somewhat promising) is too-quickly dispatched. 

We do get some more hints at the Erica backstory, but this too is not unusual or especially insightful. In the end, this story currently appears to be an action romp with lots of night scenes and blood: there is little wrong with this (I'm still reading, after all), but I have seen so many graphic novels or series (including Tynion's) pull off more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

2.0

I don't think I'm going to continue with the series. I find the story just okay and the layout of the panels is frustrating and annoying and lead to me often having to read the pages multiple times to figure out which order it's meant to be in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, and Alcohol

karli_linne's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail