Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

19 reviews

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual content

oliverreeds's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

royalty's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

Minor: Gore, Infidelity, and Gaslighting

nickel_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Car accident, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

enabditouri_'s review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

hannybee96's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Child death and Suicide

nojerama's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Baby’s first cosmic horror. God I love this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

nxclx's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I thought it was really good, and enjoyed the story telling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, and Infidelity

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

The sexual content isn't explicit, but it's vaguely covered from the eyes of a child. Also I'm not sure if medical content should be tagged here? If other people did, listen to them. I don't think it's bad, but in this context I'm not sure if that applies, just wanted to mention it.

angelicathebookworm's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The novel is narrated by the most ‘normal’ and least magical character of the story that some readers and reviewers have considered boring. While our narrator is far from extraordinary, the reader benefits from his perspective over the others because we get to experience all of the fantasy elements and magical characters as if we have faced with them ourselves. There are also so many amazing and relatable quotes to be discovered throughout Gaiman’s dark fantasy novel, many more than the handful I’ve included at the end of this review. There's depth and lots to unpack within the text that I’ll more than likely read this again to discover more of the magic within this universe.

If you prefer your fantasy novels that complete explanations and fully fleshed out worlds then this may not be the book for you. Since the narrator is reliving his past, the memories he is taking the reader through are splintered and foggy which emphasises the distortion in this reality. While this isn’t a criticism, it’s something to be mindful of before diving into this dark fantasy. The novel does also contain some graphic gore descriptions.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Gore