Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer

11 reviews

alexandryareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Blood

amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Religious bigotry, and Murder

a_novel_craving's review against another edition

funny tense fast-paced

2.0

It was fine. Not really scary, but a little funny. It was a very easy read, but the ending felt very rushed and far too simple. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Blood, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

jackieyvette's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Think Suburgatory, mixed with Desperate Housewives and My Best Friend's Exorcism. You get a good little story about friendship, love and a lot of wine. 


Crying score: nope

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Grief

hexedmaiden's review against another edition

funny slow-paced

3.0

Imagine a rag tag team of moms and one of them gets possessed. Now they have to balance motherhood & exorcising their best friend. It has the quirkiness of an 80s horror comedy film. 

While I was side-eying the use of rap music to scare the other white neighbors and treating like whatever Ed & Lorraine Warren say on possession as gospel. I do have to say that I did have fun with this book. 

Definitely would suggest this to people who maybe want a light horror novel or like the vibe of spooky Desperate Housewives or something like it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Death, and Blood

readerfromtheblacklagoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

aitanavec's review against another edition

dark funny sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

I quite really enjoyed it. It was funny at times, not very scary, but it had its tense moments, and I loved the friendship between the women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Blood, and Murder

bertharochestergraduates_8's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Gore and Violence

chris_reads's review

funny lighthearted slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Body horror and Blood

lizslazylibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

i thought this horror debut was absolutely amazing! i loved the suburban setting and i normally hate reading books about moms and kids but this was done really well. i actually didn’t want to punt the children over a fence, they were tolerable. 

i loved how this book focuses on the power of friendship and nothing is stronger than the love for your best friends/found family. i looooooved the possession parts of this book and the hauntings truly put me on the edge of my seat and actually made me very nervous. so that alone made this a great book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Grief, and Religious bigotry