Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

12 reviews

cosmicwillow's review

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

took .25 off only because i can't quite tell if the internalized anti-blackness of the mc wanting it to be known that she is half white so desperately is part of her character or something the author thinks is a totally normal way to feel about yourself but it didn't sit right with me. otherwise, this book was fucking everything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Biphobia, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Car accident, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Death

Minor: Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Gore

_rae6021's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Overall very good, really slow and doesn’t pick up any pace throughout. Also left without a real ending 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Suicide, Biphobia, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Child death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Pregnancy, Child death, Alcohol, Cursing, Gore, Sexual content, Addiction, Car accident, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Outing, Classism, Domestic abuse, Deportation, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Injury/injury detail, Death, and Infidelity

const_elle_ations's review

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Car accident, and Gore

Moderate: Biphobia, Cancer, Sexual assault, Suicide, Alcoholism, and Homophobia

rebeccaxpaige's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Outing, Abortion, Biphobia, Cancer, Cultural appropriation, Drug abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Grief, Gore, Bullying, Injury/injury detail, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Suicide, Cursing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

thecurly1's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book so so very much. The writing felt so personal and the book as a whole was a emotional roller coaster, I cried and teared up more than once. As for the characters I found a deep connection to Evelyn and Harry. The different concepts to the many relationships

Spoiler

Especially with her and Harry (definitely by far my favourite character) and some of the upsetting reality with domestic abuse :(

I was absolutely engrossed in and adored it. Probably one of my favourite part was the relationships and exploring them. As for the other very present and important theme I felt provoked so much feelings where of the idea of women’s body image and societies image on young women at that time and how we are still faced with that problem. It just was so heart breaking

Spoiler

The reality of how judgmental society can be towards women and the LGBTQIA+ community especially in the public eye in the era of time and how that got in the way of people being true and happy.

Beautiful, heart wrenching book I am obsessed and definitely recommend to others <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Blood, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Moderate: Biphobia, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

recycled_personalities's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It’s a very well written book and I do genuinely recommend it with all my heart. However, it is not void of flaws. I strongly recommend seeking out some opinions from POC (especially Latinx and Black POC) about this book and how it talks about race before reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

ilovegraphs's review

inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Abortion, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

ngm's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Minor: Gore, Racism, and Adult/minor relationship

moll's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into with this book but it is definitely my favourite book I have read this year.  Once I started it I couldn’t put it down and read it all in one sitting.  All the characters were so complex and felt so real.  I also thought the bi representation was really well done especially in the way that bisexuality was openly discussed.  I sobbed through the last few chapters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Grief, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, Gore, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Pregnancy

theotheleo's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Gore, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Grief, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Death, and Cancer

Minor: Abortion, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Body shaming, Car accident, Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Outing, and Suicidal thoughts