Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Jackal by Erin E. Adams

116 reviews

kg18's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Gore

Moderate: Racism

kurumipanda's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Racism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, and Alcohol

kimisaboss123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Racism, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Stalking, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing and Classism

megnut's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

_sunnysans's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

gkaltam's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Child death and Gore

Moderate: Racism

clarklyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I have lots of complicated feelings about this book. I really enjoyed the first part of the book but then it fell off the rails for me and I got lost. I don’t think it knew what it wanted to be…thriller, true crime, mystery, horror? 

It seemed like it was thriller/true crime but then I got ambushed by supernatural horror at the end. I wanted to like it, I appreciated the authors perspective and introspection on being a Black woman. However, to be honest, Liz wasn’t a super likable main character, although I was rooting for her and got incredibly frustrated with every obstacle she faced. The “best friend” was SO cruel to the main character but then they pick back up like it was nothing? Mel left Liz in the woods, the woods Mel KNOWS Liz is terrified of, after throwing her phone into the brush…what an absolute fucking asshole!!?

Sometimes the internal narrative was overly lyrical and flowery. It felt very forced and inauthentic and just isn’t my type of writing I don’t think. We spend more time in the main characters head than we do in the story. 

Another aspect to this review is that I listened to the audiobook which I would not recommend for this book. I think my experience would have been much different if I had read it and maybe I will give it a second chance one day. The narrator struggled when reading the dialog. The sentences ran together and it was incredibly difficult to tell who was saying what at times. Her voice, while pretty and soothing, was very hard to follow and listen to in regard to the story. She was very soft spoken and mumbled her words sometimes and I just couldn’t follow at certain points. 

I almost DNF’d at one point because I was so confused and frustrated. I powered through and while I didn’t *not* enjoy the book, it just wasn’t my favorite and I was left more confused than anything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Racism, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

babynatalie's review

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

Amazing read. Couldn't put the book down. Great writing. Super engaging story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Racism and Sexual assault

tfortilney's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Racism, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Racial slurs and Rape

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Racism, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Rape