Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Sopa de miso by Ryū Murakami

92 reviews

jhals5's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Self harm, Blood, and Murder

ladybooker's review against another edition

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

3.75

Jesus Christ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual violence, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Cannibalism

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

jettiphoned's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

camilamunoz's review against another edition

3.0

psychological horror; to got to the police or not? Kenji getting stuck in his own body after the climax was so difficult to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm and Blood

astrib's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Definitely kept me on my toes. A very short and fascinating read, but dark.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Hate crime, Mental illness, and Kidnapping

readallmay's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Self harm, Torture, and Stalking

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

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

harleyqueen's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Kenji is hired by Frank to tour him around the red light district of Tokyo but with murders happening close by who Is frank really and what are his desires?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

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