Reviews tagging 'Violence'

All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

6 reviews

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Medical content, Car accident, Body horror, Grief, Toxic relationship, Child death, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Alcohol, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Death, Gore, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Vomit

blackthornfaery's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

two instances of cruelty towards cats leading to cat death

bookish_paws's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Death, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Violence and Stalking

sk_x's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Vomit, Murder, Violence, and Stalking

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

Really fantastic YA gothic horror. Captivating setting, interesting characters and relationship between them, intense mystery that revealed itself. Subplot of sapphic romance. 

Only thing I wished more of was more scene building to really bring the gothic horror of the house together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Vomit, Blood, Violence, and Sexual content

gorejoyous's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

A queer gothic horror novel that explores grief and trauma set in (what is essentially) a haunted house? This book sounded exactly my speed.

The first half begins with creepy or unsettling occurances around the house but after we find out the cause in the second half—that's when the true horror begins (and where the story really hooked me). The relationship that blooms between Marin and Evie is touching and you really understand how deeply they care for each other. The writing is a little boring and clunky at times (not unexpected given that it's YA), but then you also get lines like:

"The way Marin's arms formed parenthesis around her. When Evier sighed against her neck, it was an apostrophe—in the possessive. And Marin knew all the words. She had been memorizing them for months." 

Which is just *chef's kiss* the kind of romance perfect for the gothic horror genre. Aside from some pacing issues, I found the story compelling—it had me, in equal parts, on the edge of my seat and sighing forlornly, wishing that I too lived in a giant weird house full of dead things.

Thanks to HarperCollins Children's Books and NetGalley for the digital ARC!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Stalking, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Child death