Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

259 reviews

jayadevi's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Confinement, Child death, Gun violence, Self harm, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

fionamatilda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Terminal illness, Violence, and Vomit

elenail's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

It has been years since I have been able to read fiction for fun, let alone in about a week. I tore through this book, happy to see queer character representation, as well as an intriguing and somewhat reality grounded plot. Emotionally difficult to read at times I had to take pauses. What a read to find that was written  a year pre pandemic about disease. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Gore, and Medical content

capitaens's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

vespera's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Vomit

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Gore, Child death, Vomit, Animal death, Chronic illness, Body horror, Blood, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

sareidle's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Terminal illness, Murder, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Grief, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Animal death, Self harm, and Physical abuse

c3liaiswhoiam's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

This was not what I thought it would be at all but if I didn't enjoy the hell out of it anyway, tho. 
It's actually gross, so don't read it if you're squeamish. But otherwise? Who doesn't love some good ol' wlw romance?

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Content Warnings

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

frostlywild17's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

A fun, dark read. I really liked the claustrophobic school-in-the-middle-of-nowhere atmosphere and the horror elements. It definitely pulled off the weird, horrifying aspect well. My only complaint is that the ending was really unsatisfying - a lot of questions were left unanswered and it felt like the story could have been longer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

sophie_hans's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical content, Confinement, Gore, Blood, Child death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Body horror

jahara's review against another edition

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

3.0

I liked the horror elements. The world it was set in and the body horror. The writing was good and I enjoyed Byatts perspectives. All in all, the first half of the book was good, the second half towards the end felt really rushed with everything happening at once. I didn’t really understand the way the ending is supposed to work in the context of a standalone.

Spoiler

I feel like the romance between hetty and reese could’ve been set up/kept up better. It didn’t feel out of nowhere but they didn’t really linger on any tension either. I liked that they went into the guilt of hetty killing Mr. Harker and that Reese doesn’t just easily forgive her and I think their dynamic had a lot of potential that just wasn’t really used to its full extend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Gore