Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky

47 reviews

casandra_lovealwaysbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? No

4.0

The last 150 pages or so helped the book tremendously for me. It was good and started out solid, but somewhere in the middle I found myself getting bored. It passed quickly and I think it might have been because I couldn’t read it straight through like I wanted. My original hope was to read it in one night but because I couldn’t, I think that’s why I got tired. 
Overall, it was great for any fans of horror/slasher movies. Specifically Scream fans, which is why I picked this up! 

Highly recommend if you love slasher films and mysterious school based books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence

cactuspunk's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, and Classism

themoodreader's review

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gore, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

aturb92's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness

twelvekindsoftrouble's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.25

It was okay. The characters felt a little flat, which kind of put me off. The twist was pretty good, and well-foreshadowed and tied everything up very nicely, which was satisfying, but it didn’t have the OOMPH of an emotional impact that I was looking for. The writing style also didn’t feel. Horror-y enough. Also the modern references to social media are. I can’t do that. Those last two are nit picky. But still. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia and Suicide

sallytiffany's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This is a solid book. It kind of moved slowly for me and not a genre I usually get into. The characters are well written but I couldn’t relate to them because I just don’t like horror movies. A fine book, just not written for my taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, and Alcohol

chigirlswiftie17's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

alindeman's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.25

This book is not good. Would not recommend. Unless you feel like reading about a traumatized girl get retraumatized by

her own fucking friends.

Bad writing- incredibly juvenile and cheesy; YA in a bad way. Characters are meh, they make stupid decisions and are unlikeable. Villains aren’t even given a reason for their malice and violence. Even the 2 “good” characters are immoral. Doing terrible shit to the people closest to you because of “rules”. Like just don’t. Not that hard. Heroine doesn’t even save herself,

rescued by a fucking boy.

Talk about overplayed horror tropes. Only reason this isn’t 1 star is bc the plot is admittedly intriguing. I angry finished this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

lindsbrarian03's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

heykidzspellingisfun's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Stalking, Murder, and Sexual harassment