Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

14 reviews

dreadspawn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Incest, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Colonisation

pianoman543's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Incest, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Sexism, Vomit, and Colonisation

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative mysterious sad 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? No

3.0

Rounding up to a three, but this book was actually very hard for me to rate. The story held my attention, and I liked it better than The Ghost Bride, but I was so deeply uncomfortable with the relationship between Ji Lin and Shin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

katastrophi's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This has me enthusiastic about reading her other works. I was transported immediately into the world she built and absorbed in the tale. I appreciated Ji Lin's intelligence, resourcefulness, loyalty, and ferocity.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Gore, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Child death, Sexism, Slavery, Stalking, and Death of parent

horationelson's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Misogyny, Sexism, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Colonisation

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Gun violence

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Gore

ruuntvoces's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Child abuse

veronicachp's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

I kept waiting and hoping this book would rope me in and I'd become actually invested in the characters or the story, but it really didn't unfortunately. I enjoyed the premise, I enjoy a good mystery, but it kind of felt like it had too many irons in the fire and TOO many mysteries for me to be really engaged with any of them. Without spoiling, after the MacFarlane storyline was resolved, it felt like the story just went haywire with twists and turns and lost the plot, so to speak. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Miscarriage

jazhandz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.25

I have a three strike policy with books: writing style, characters, plot. I could tell right away that I didn’t care for the writing style (strike one), and Ren was the only character I cared about (strike two, given how many characters this book is stuffed with). But the plot hooked me, so I kept reading. I would describe this choice as a mistake. The payoff was incredibly not worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Incest, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

elliejhnsn's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

Writing was excellent. The story unfolded in a really captivating way. It is a bit twisted, mysterious, and dark, with magical realism, reflective of the land of Malay and the sociopolitical environments at the time. But, I think it was a bit too dark for me. It did leave me with a lot of questions still, but I think it did so intentionally, as it was a mystical story. Finally, and most importantly, the love story was NOT IT FOR ME DAWG. It felt so wrong. I definitely felt the way Ji Lin's mother did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

bonnienoire's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and Sexual harassment