Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

37 reviews

river23's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racism, and Medical content

Moderate: Gore, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

cowardthedog18's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

5.0

There had to be more; And boy the drawing at the end of the book is the best part. The best parting gift knowing your grandparents will always watch over you. I’m reading A Snake Falls To Earth now. Hope it meets my expectations just as this one did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

cj13's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Grief

Moderate: Death, Gore, Xenophobia, Blood, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Car accident, and Alcohol

artstitute's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

As someone who doesn't read a lot of murder mysteries, I can get frustrated when they take too long to reveal information. This book had really solid pacing that kept me engaged the whole time — doubly impressive for a debut novel! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Gore and Medical content

katrinky's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.5

good mystery, but got a little muddled sometimes (are they leeches? or vampires? or just magic evil humans?) and I didn't find the characters to be very deeply-drawn. I recommend it for YA fans, mystery fans, thriller fans, and anyone into vampire/mythical lore. and HIGHLY recommend for anyone looking to read more Native authors and see more Native protagonists.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ariiw's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racism, and Blood

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

emotional sad

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

I feel like one of the plotlines just never got resolved and I disagree with the main character on 

how Abe Allerton should've just died like it does make sense for dying ppl to be extremely desperate

. Besides those, the pace is slow until it becomes fast in the final 100ish pages and there are emotional scenes towards the end, just like a milder version of Record of a Spaceborn Few.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Violence

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, and Blood

Ableism is specifically use of unchallenged ableist language: the word "h*ndicap"

booklover26's review

adventurous mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Gore, Violence, and Murder

daryn's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Murder

Minor: Colonisation

jjjreads's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racism, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy