Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Ritual by Adam L.G. Nevill

36 reviews

chicken_pastabake's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

I fucking loved this book. I finished it last night and I can’t stop thinking about it. I liked the first half of the book thoroughly. I enjoyed the ominous feel of the woods and the banter between the gang. I know a lot of people didn’t like the second part of the book, but I really enjoyed it. I thought it was interesting and it was something I’ve never read in a book before. Teenage black metal heads worshipping a creature in the woods. Who doesn’t love that kind of crap. 5 stars! :D

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Death, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Body shaming, Vomit, and Alcohol

weird_hylian24's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Fatphobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

izypup's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, and Murder

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Excrement, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

a_beautiful_soup's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

emmylgrajinski's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

The first half of this book is incredibly chilling and eerie. Was nearly late for work once because i was so engrossed. The second half, as the other reviews have said, is a little less gripping in my opinion. But even though I didn't enjoy the direction of the second half as much as the first, the writing, the atmosphere and the imagery is still incredible all the way through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

gawdz0rz's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

3.5

includes a peek into some more recent parts of norwegian history. i won’t say more than that outside spoilers. 

kinda feels like the book splits into two different books like halfway through? 

author writes a little weird about women’s bodies. “he was smelling her cunt through a nose he knew to be smashed flat.” no he wasn’t. that’s not true. 

some other thoughts:

the tie-in of black metal and the 90s church burnings in norway to the characters’ backgrounds was great. and luke pointing out the conflicting beliefs (different tattoos, getting sacrificed to what was believed a pagan god on an inverted cross, etc.) showed the timeline of some people in that same scene moving between satanism and paganism (or what is now called “odinism”), sincerity not required. and then there’s showing the bigoted beliefs of some in the black metal scene—burzum, for example, being one of the bands fenris listed, was founded by varg vikernes, a nazi. and that wasn’t the only nazi band listed. 

finally, i’m not sure i like how the beast in the woods was kinda just brushed off as some random demon or “mother” or whatever, rather than something way more important to the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Torture, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Vomit

asmei's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, Vomit, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol

violetturtledove'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

4.75

This had me absolutely gripped the whole way through.  It's a great mix of Scandinavian folklore and survival horror, with a good dash of 'spooky cabin in the woods'. I only felt really creeped out in the earlier chapters, but this is not faint praise as its a feeling I rarely get at all from books. By the time the creepiness faded for me,  the tension was already high and it did not let up for the rest of the story. There's also a good amount of visceral horror so fans of gore will not be disappointed. 

The characters were well fleshed out, if not particularly likeable, and by the end you certainly sympathise with the main character despite his faults.

It ends well too, there's enough left for the reader to think on without anything being left glaringly unanswered. This is the first book I've read by this author and I will definitely be reading more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

wytnie's review

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

3.75

it was a good read, i wish we got a bit more out of the other men in the group and i feel like the author is obsessed with trying to make some of his descriptions to detailed. Like sometimes he nailed it and other times it was just too much idk. All in all though i don't regret the read and want to watch the movie again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

night_shift's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

Weirdly life affirming. So, so incredibly tense with an absolutely brutal and deserved ending. Leaving us until the very end to reveal the thing in full was a good move. Now to rewatch the movie to see how it compares (not super comparable in my memory, but was several years ago so idk)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail