Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

23 reviews

rachelpoteet's review

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Suicide

zag95's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Sexual harassment

littlelotto's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

atamano's review against another edition

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Car accident, and Classism

ladykatka's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Every child eventually learns that their parent isn't perfect, but this book taught Calla one hell of a lesson.

I love a good Faustian bargain and I'm pretty sure this one counts. I haven't read a 600 page book and I really long time and I read this one in 3 days so clearly I enjoyed it. However, it turned from creepy and atmospheric for 75% of the book to instant body horror in the last 25%. So that took me by surprise. I also had to rate this down half a star because Emily was annoying and I didn't like that

John had the perfect death and then they brought him back just so that there could be a happy ending for the main characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

terrik_409's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

So very, very dark. Creepy and thrilling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Self harm, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

uncreativeoops's review

dark mysterious tense slow-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

2.5

Nearly DNFed but then just skimmed the middle part because the plot was actually interesting. The characters just annoyed me. In theory, they sounded intriguing but in execution they were too one-dimensional, like each had one characteristic that described them (the author even does that at the end) and that's all they think about. It got better when they interacted with each other and not just the side characters of their backstories but that happened pretty late. This book is slow and I actually would have enjoyed that if I had connected with the characters more.
Ironically, I now want to go to a farmer's market and try new heirloom apples. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Suicide, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Gaslighting, and Colonisation

imstephtacular's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Vomit, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Police brutality, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

beaniebabyidiot's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Vomit

professoremdash's review

dark lighthearted tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I’m not a huge gore horror fan so this was a bit of a mixed bag for me. I liked the general premise and overall plot. It got pretty dark in the middle and I had a hard time wanting to continue because I just couldn’t see a way out for the characters, but the ending felt earned. The story also contained a surprising amount of politics/political correctness which felt kind of random. It wasn’t terrible, it just stuck out to me every time something came up in an aside or in a character interaction. Overall it was good but not great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder