Reviews tagging 'Death'

Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi

5 reviews

aparker89's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

Follow the journey of four adults who served time as children for committing a huge crime against their community. Guilt follows then wherever they go, but they manage until one day HE reappears! Not only is The Magic Man back- but he's out there convincing other preteen kids to commit similar atrocities! 
Find out the truth behind their crime and those that came after and discover where The Magic Man really does get his magic!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Alcoholism, Blood, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide, Physical abuse, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Stalking, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Mental illness, Self harm, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

faulklore's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

2.0

trigger 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Violence, Racism, Drug use, Alcoholism, Murder, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Death of parent, and Suicide

kermit_the_wrong's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Suicide, Child abuse, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Torture, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Blood, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Pedophilia, and Racism

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Murder, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Lesbophobia, and Fatphobia

Minor: Suicide attempt and Infidelity

bookworm4tea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

own. I like how the timeline would switch between their time as children when everything started to get crazy and when they were adults and everything was still messed up. I think the author did a great job with creating such unique and flawed characters within the gang that was made up of Jamie, Dennis, Mia, and Clay. This was an extremely creepy, dark and often times difficult book to read as it touches on triggering topics. I really enjoyed the friends group and how they came back together to deal with the horrible problem that happened 20 years ago when they were only children. This book was amazingly well written and the atmosphere was so eerie an unnerving that it had me tensing up at some parts and the audiobook made it ten times creepier which is a definite plus. I would recommend this to horror lover who enjoy a story with spine-chilling atmosphere, well thought out characters and terrifying storyline that has your attention from start to finish. I loved the plot and thought the storyline flowed perfectly as I flew through the book in just a day. I think it would be easy to adapt this into a movie or show.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Suicide, Child death, and Animal death