Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Pines by Blake Crouch

23 reviews

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Trafficking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Xenophobia, Blood, Car accident, and War

markguitar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

3.0

Very good book and I hope to get the sequel.  Crouch is an excellent writer.  At first, I thought I wouldn't bother going to the second book.  Fair warning...lots of very graphic violence, gore, torture.  If you don't have a stomach for that, I'd avoid it.  That almost made me want to stop.  However, the book leads to a payoff in the end...it does resolve, but it also makes me curious about what's coming next.  Not as good as Crouch's Incursion--which is outstanding--but still a good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, and Vomit

lawmixitup's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical trauma, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

smashingreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This trilogy has been on my TBR since I realized that the show Wayward Pines was originally a book series. Even though it has been absolutely forever since I watched the series, some things are impossible to forget. Like the entire twist of the book or the fact that Season 1 of Wayward Pines is essentially book 1 of the series. 

 

So, reading this was delightful, but also like... damn, why couldn't I have forgotten what happened. 

 

On the plus side, the Wayward Pines show was the reason I found Blake Crouch's books, so yay. 

 

Can't wait to see what Book 2 has in store. I have high hopes because I read in a reddit AMA that Blake Crouch was not involved in Wayward Pines season 2 (and I was only able to watch half of season 2) so... it should be somewhat new to me, right? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence

dayanitha's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

saltycoffee's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

delaneybull's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, and Car accident

midwichtriffid's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hobbithopeful's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

From the very first page I was sucked right in, and I felt as scared and helpless as poor secret agent Ethan Burke. We follow our lost main character as he awakens in town with absolutely no idea where he is, and with only vague recollections of his current situation. Matters quickly go from bad to worse as he realizes he has no wallet, no phone, and the sheriff of the town is less then helpful. Burke has to discover what is going on, and try to retain his sanity in a place where everyone is starting to think he is crazy. 
Out of every monster, murderer, and creepy crawly mystery thriller I have ever read, there is something about the perfect town where everyone seems and acts happy, but there is a dark undercurrent that always unnerves me more then anything else. *shudders* Give me a vampire or a serial killer any day of the week and I will be find reading it, but the town of Wayward Pines had the hairs on the back of my neck standing on end and my heart racing!
There isn't much I can say about this book without spoilers but let me just say, never in a million years would I have guessed the insidious truth about the seemingly sleepy town of Wayward Pines, and I ran  to the library website to put the next book in the trilogy on hold!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, and War

ladawson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, and Car accident

Minor: Infidelity, Torture, War, and Injury/Injury detail