Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

53 reviews

mafaichney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Pedophilia, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Xenophobia

bebodotcom'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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Gore, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

kaanda'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Extremely dark in so many ways, but fantastic at holding tension. Truly horrific.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

rocketsaurus's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

0.5

Not a bad book per se, but so wildly outside of what I want to read more of I cannot let the Storygraph algorithm think I liked it. Finished our of pure spite. Incredibly fucked up, and if that's your thing you're gunna love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Excrement, and Vomit

amoremeg's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

2.75

This book was hard to get through. The dialogue was difficult to follow and often felt jumpy or truncated or stilted. I believe (I hope) there was some elegance lost in the translation. There are no winners. I don't know if any of the characters are actually good people. Maybe some are trying but it feels like the impulse to act out always wins, the impulse to not communicate always wins. There are so many irrelevant characters who did not need names and backstories- they were only introduced at all to bear witness to some moment, to be a third person perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Excrement, and Vomit

mcrome04's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia

elsasbooksss's review against another edition

sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

The horror scences were well-written, the books plot just seemed a bit slow and obvious. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, and Violence

gatsbyonabudget's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

One of the best horror books I have ever read. It’s both scary and incredibly sad. A morbid coming of age story 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Pedophilia, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

charcoalpencils's review against another edition

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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia and Violence

Minor: Rape

evelphysicist's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Overall a good read. I enjoyed the multiple characters and perspectives in the book and I think seeing these characters lives intersect made the story more interesting as it’s not a particularly fast paced book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Trafficking