Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Sopa de miso by Ryū Murakami

118 reviews

nalakoala's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Blood

Moderate: Fatphobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Excrement, Grief, Cannibalism, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, Medical content, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

dostocosto's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

julia_f's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, and Murder

tamaramoralessss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Idk I liked the book even tho the beginning was a bit of a drag for me but it gets better in  the middle and lowkey I feel hypnotized 😭😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

samdoucette's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Rape

cateycat's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, and Alcohol

orizenda's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

4.5

This review may contain spoilers? I’m just going to kind of say what I think the point of this book is, because I’m not sure I fully get it. But I’m trying to make sense of it. To me it seems like a commentary on how we treat other people. In all kinds of ways. Frank is a foreigner-the word gaijin comes up a lot, i’m not sure if something is lost on me here as a stupid american- a foreigner in just about every way possible. He’s a foreigner in Japan, obviously, he makes himself unknown to those around him through the lies he tells, if we’re to believe his backstory, he was an outsider to his family and shunned from his hometown. He even became a foreigner to his own body (if we believe his story, which, as we get it through Kenji, he believes it anyway). I’m not entirely sure what to make of the graphic violence or a myriad of other things. I don’t want to take up too much space here though, and I fear I already have.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent

peppamint's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

mementomoriiv's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I was interested to see where the author would take the story after the major event that happens mid-book. I liked what he chose to do -- it offered some interesting and valid insight, and counterbalanced the extreme gore well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm

weirdly_reading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I am simply mesmerized by Ryu Murakami's writing. I am just as dragged into the history, as Kenji is into Frank's web of strangeness, lies, and half truths.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Sexual content