Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

35 reviews

mlgallaher's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death

rohwynn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I wanted to like this book more but it was hard to stay in it. Well written but it was a little drawn out for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, and Animal death

bearystarry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

So glad this ended the way it did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Blood, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Cursing, Child abuse, Animal death, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Medical content, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Pregnancy

kaitieg97's review against another edition

challenging 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? No

5.0

A very interesting story, it was eerie and intense.

Spoiler

I really like Malorie and I wish things turned out happier for her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Animal death, Gore, and Child death

Moderate: Child death, Blood, Body horror, and Grief

Minor: Vomit

berninator94's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

If you've watched the movie and are deciding whether you should read the book: read it. There are things in this book that they could never put into a film, simply because the tension building is just so incredible. There are whole scenes that are completely different, and much more horrific than the movie adaptation. I'm a slow reader, but I finished this pretty quickly, as it is short and amazingly well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Suicide, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kirstenpod_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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: Blood, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Death, Suicide, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Vomit, and Child death

dev921's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective 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: Blood, Body horror, Death, Pregnancy, Animal death, Excrement, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Stalking

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This really had me on the edge of my seat, and it's so courageous that someone thought to make a movie about a book where everyone is covering their eyes! Very creepy. I did wonder about some of the pregnancy-related facts though. Those bits seemed less plausible. Definitely extremely heckin gory though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Confinement, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Excrement, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Vomit, and Alcohol

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I am reeling from this story, possibly because I devoured it in 24 hours which made it quite an immersive experience. Bird Box is in my head.

From the very beginning we are drip-fed a mystery which is never explained or solved. It's a seemingly outlandish scenario which results in clusters of survivors who must stay indoors and forever hide their eyes from what lurks outside. There's a faint sense of the ridiculous, but the fear that gripped the characters, of what cannot be seen or known, was enough to completely engross me. Add to that a desperate, isolated mother raising her children to be constantly afraid and never look outside, and I just could not put it down.

The writing is incredibly clever. With my eyes wide open I felt completely exposed while reading, and the tension that builds slowly throughout the book became a physical sensation for me by the end. I finished the book with clenched fists; every horror that Malorie experiences, she does so through her other senses. What she cannot see she must assume, and the cause of it all remains unknowable. I absolutely loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Suicide, Child abuse, Murder, Gore, and Child death

pancaaakes's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Gore

Moderate: Violence and Animal death