Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

108 reviews

saraaai's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Body horror, and Colonisation

Moderate: Cancer and Suicide

Minor: Vomit

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Strange and intriguing, I just had to keep reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Cancer, Gore, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Confinement, Abandonment, Death, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, and Suicide

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This was… strange. didn’t vibe with the narrator so it was a bit of a drag to finish, but man was it wild. nothing like the movie, in good and bad ways. 

will be reading the next one! or at least trying a sample of it before deciding to not 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Murder, and Body horror

jessiejonesbentley's review against another edition

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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Death, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Grief

biobeetle's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, and Body horror

xrrbrr's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

cheazcakeguy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I loved this book. The concepts were strange, the mystery of area x intriguing, and the biologist as a narrator was unique, if a little wooden. The atmosphere of this novel is tense, eerie, and slowly feeds the confusion and horror of both the characters and the reader. The tension between the characters is palpable at times. I was slightly less satisfied with the ending than I was hoping for, though this is the beginning of a trilogy so I can't expect to get all of the answers by the end of book one. My biggest complaint is the pacing is a bit uneven at times - the narrator spends what feels like long sections of the book contemplating their situation and the strange phenomena going on, which is true to the character as an observant scientist but isn't always enjoyable to read. However with how short this book is, that can be easily forgiven. This is a near-perfect modern Lovecraftian sci-fi horror novel (much better than anything I've read by Lovecraft myself, for sure!). Easy to recommend to any sci-fi or horror fan who has a penchant for weirdness. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

bexi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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

3.0

🤔🤔🤔

I knew I was in for a weird time because I saw the movie adaptation in theaters before I knew it was a book. The book is just as weird and perplexing, if not more. I'm not interested enough to continue with the series, but I might try some other books by the author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Gun violence, and Suicide

Minor: Cursing and Cancer

judassilver's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Animal death, Blood, Death, Confinement, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Cancer and Suicide

draven_deathcrush's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I just thought it was boring. Maybe I didn't understand it, but I really didn't like it. I just wanted to read a book, so I picked this up. It was easy to get through, I finished it in a day, but it was just boring. I just didn't care much about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide