Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Echo Man by Sam Holland

14 reviews

maisiegibbs's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

OMG easily the best book I’ve read… ever I think. It took a while for me to get my teeth into it but once I did I couldn’t put it down. The plot. The characters. The twists. I just can’t say enough about this book. I am picking up The Twenty as we speak. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

imzadi481's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

Moderate: Pedophilia

vrbovaa__'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol

abachiam's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

What did I just read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, and Drug abuse

staceeyt's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

fizzy_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, and Vomit

ryan_mjm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Murder, and Sexual harassment

romonko's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

0.5

I thought I knew what to expect with this book after I read some of the reviews, but, believe me, they did not prepare me for this bloodbath of a book.  After I had read about 1/4 of it, I would have put it away, but it was given to me, so I felt compelled to finish.  At that point I would have probably given it 3 stars because it had captured my interest, and I hadn't yet read the 100's of pages of blood, gore and depravity.  As I continued the star rating kept going down and when I finally finished it, it was actually barely 1/2 star, but since there is no way to enter that rating,, I left it at one.  For those of you who like your thrillers graphic and full of blood and killing, this is the book for you.  To me it felt like the author threw everything but the kitchen sink into this mess.  I really don't know if he missed any possible depravities, but to me it felt like he didn't.  After reading the afterward, I realize that this is a first novel for Mr. Holland, and he followed the advice of his publisher to not stop at anything.  The book is about 450 pages long, and with all the repetitiveness, and with the cliffhanger of the ending, I think it could have ended at 150 pages.  I think I should have stopped at that point anyway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder

This is a very graphic, depraved and violent book. There is no respite from the violence.

bookbug_97's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.25

Well SHIT. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Torture, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

saartjeinwonderbookland's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting