Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Relic by Douglas Preston

11 reviews

ehamlett's review

adventurous informative mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Violence, Medical content, and Murder

neighbor_reads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

This was a reread for me, but enough time had passed that I realized I forgot a lot of the plot and details.

This is a fast-paced thriller with horror elements and a wild plot: there is a monster hunting the staff and visitors of the NY Museum of Natural History. This is a creature feature through and through, so it comes with a heavy dose of gore and description of said gore (check your content warnings).

The plot is at risk of being slow while it spends time with our main characters as they slowly piece the truth together, but Preston and Child avoid that pitfall with tense action scenes throughout the novel, ultimately leading to a tense and exciting 3rd act climax that I couldn't put down.

This is the first in a now 22 book series featuring FBI special agent Pendergast, and while I can't say how good the rest of the series is, this is a fun and fascinating series opener.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death

runeonilyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Child death and Racism

sappypatheticm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

andmingmingtoo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I love that it's a mystery rooted in science (or "science"). As a biologist, it's fun to read a mystery book with terms you saw in your genetics classes used as integral clues. 
I also love a good ensemble cast, and this book got me attached to several main characters with the narrative switches and different mystery-solving niches.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Xenophobia and Alcohol

ashes456's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use

ak97x's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Violence, and Stalking

amirarahim's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit

Heavy descriptions on butchered and maimed bodies.

sarah_ann_roth's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Gun violence, and Murder

dogearedbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

Reread in March 2022 - I listened to the audiobook this time. Such a great audiobook, I'm trying to get into audiobooks and decided to go with a book I wanted to reread and had a good sample. I am so glad I did, I still love this book and the audiobook made it better. This book is so 90s and just stupid fun, like an anchient beast in a museum hunting people. It has some language of the time, but the bulk of the characters are scientists so at least it isnt as bad as other books of rhe period. I really just love this book, if I ever need a cheer up I'll listen to the wild ride of the audiobook again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Blood

Minor: Alcohol