Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice

6 reviews

reverievagabond's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.75

The A Plot was interesting but the B Plot was so jarringly hard to read purely because it feels like Empress Theresa and Spider-Man had a wolf child. In werewolf form, he gets spider senses to know where "evil" is and then the threat gets eliminated in like two seconds. Then as a human he constantly gets praised for every aspect of his character and revered like a god simply because he writes good and looks decent.

The book also dragged on - after the plot threads got resolved there was essentially two hours of werewolves gossiping and dropping lore bombs that should've been sprinkled in earlier

Based gay representation though; especially given the context surrounding the book's release (not as many people were aware of LGBTQ stuff at the time and the author was a christian in her 70s)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Homophobia

kellyinbookland's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

gilmargirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

gilnean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

theremightbecupcakes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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

3.5

Werewolves are my favorite monster, and the language is lovely and lyrical, so I really enjoyed it, and I will continue with the series eventually (looks like there's only a second one). I only scored it three stars out of five because of the

bestiality. It was gratuitous and strange. The mani characters only had sex when he was a werewolf; they never consumated their relationship as two humans, only as a human female and a male werewolf. And it was graphic. Graphic and hairy and slobbery.

It was so pretty, and frightening, with these amazing ideas about the nature of good and evil, and then that would happen. I'm no prude, but I don't like when my horror makes me uncomfortable around my dogs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, and Murder