Reviews tagging 'Blood'

No One Rides for Free by Judith Sonnet

90 reviews

lostgirl8787's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

Take the warnings seriously. This is a lot, there is no kid gloves available when reading. You will want a shower after reading this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

foxglove_alchemist's review against another edition

This book is absolutely horrific. Although I was aware that this was an extreme horror, I went into this somewhat blind. The first half of the book is really quite horrible.... but I was alright reading it, i was repulsed and tense but it hadnt really upset me to this point. 
Then, at about the halfway point, you are hit with a full page trigger warning, giving you the chance to stop reading before the book really gets into it. 
I thought for, quite some time as to whether I should continue or not, curious as to how much worse it can get but also worried if i carried on I might end up with ptsd - (I will say, Im not usually easily scared/bothered by horror, however the situation set up in the first half is probably one of my worst nightmares) - and in the end my partner offered to read the next couple of chapters for me to see if the trigger warning was actually a serious warning..... it's completely serious. What follows is bad and it gets worse and worse.
My partner told me that I should not read the rest because he knew it would really upset me but we spoke about it and told me (in the least amount of detail possible)some of what he read..... I'm absolutely horrified! 
I've since cried multiple times about this book and I'm glad I didn't carry on reading. 
This book has made me pause on reading for a while and from now on I will do more research on an extreme horror before reading and also take trigger warnings seriously. 
If you are bothered by sexual violence and are in any doubt about whether you should read this... or if you're thinking how bad can it get? It gets very bad, don't read it, it will upset you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

thebookishlifesg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault and Torture

aiden_mr2's review against another edition

dark sad 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? N/A

2.0

This book was a collection of trigger warnings in the worst way possible.  Needless to say I read through all it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Alcohol

grosslittleanimal's review against another edition

dark 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

1.5

rape-revenge with too much rape not enough revenge

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder

elinandi's review

dark tense fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and Kidnapping

mossyoaktree's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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

0.5

This was just disgusting. There’s no other way to put it. I get extreme horror and splatterpunk, but this is neither. It is clearly a cry for help from the author. I don’t know what kinda help is needed but some is required. I regret spending an hour on this book. I genuinely don’t know what posses someone to write something like this. I mean if just downright disgusting snuff books are your cup of tea then this takes the cake. But for us average joes, this is putrid. I don’t even want this on my self. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

cnnunez13's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

ekaramanov's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Blood, Excrement, and Murder

sarawildoosen's review against another edition

dark medium-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

This is by far the worst book I’ve ever read. It is not good at all. Anyone who says otherwise needs serious help. While the writing is somewhat decent, the content is absolutely deranged and bring a bad reputation to horror as a genre. The writer should be on a watchlist somewhere, there’s no excuse for a fantasy such as this other than pure untapped (as far as I’m aware) evil. 


On a less academic note, I had to hug my mom for an hour after reading this. Not in a funny “ha-ha this book should be a horror reading challenge” but in a serious “this triggered me in a way that antidepressants cannot combat” kind of way. Terrible. Can’t rate it low enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail