Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Le vergini suicide by Cristina Sella, Jeffrey Eugenides

19 reviews

rowanelisa's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

ambercunningham's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

ggwillmott's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

apple2007's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

ru_th's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Hardly have we begun to palpate their grief than we find ourselves wondering whether this particular wound was mortal or not, or whether (in our blind doctoring) it’s a wound at all. It might just as well be a mouth, which is as wet and as warm. The scar might be over the heart or the kneecap. We can’t tell. All we can do is go groping up the legs and arms, over the soft bivalvular torso, to the imagined face. It is speaking to us. But we can’t hear.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, and Stalking

molly_greenshields's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

The title of this book should perhaps have forewarned me of its brutality... but alas, I was blindsided by the beautiful cover (thanks Picador). I can't honestly decide how I feel about The Virgin Suicides... on the one hand, I found myself hooked by what was perhaps one of the best examples of an unreliable narrator I've ever seen done (I *truly* hated those boys... although, what's new?). On the other hand, I did find myself feeling physically sick a whole awful lot (perhaps not totally surprising). Personally, I don't think I should have picked up a book that deals with this topic in such a blasé way, as it was really difficult for me to stomach the romanticisation and sensationalising of suicide (albeit in a sarcastic manner... I get that that was the point, I just didn't like it). Having said that, I do think Eugenides' prose is powerful and worth a read if this isn't something that you'd struggle with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, and Blood

Minor: Pregnancy

hfleur's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, and Blood

Minor: Mental illness

Graphic

antoniav's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• 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, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, and Sexual content

saoreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Its gruesome details are described as prosaic and poetic, with the metaphorical lines humming along the monstrosity of taking one's own life. It gave statistical inputs and the relating aspects of typical boys' adolescence, making it literally impossible to forget their first loves. The voyeurism was in one point of view, yet with the other it was the same too, though the latter didn't get to live long. After years and decades of searching for the "why", it somehow led to a point of redundancy, evidence, bias, and notions agreeing with the deed itself. That growing up sucks and daydreaming is better. Life wasn't in their control, so they took matters into their own hands, though it spoke of unrelenting grief hanging to a thread and plenty of factors no one might've noted. The fact that the parent's way of putting up their children suffocated them, or it might have stemmed from a faulty gene (or so they say, and to the extremes of five of them all?), or they took religion in their own different interpretations, there are plenty of what ifs that arise. However, the decision made brought agony and awful influence to their surroundings. It's one to assess yet not to act upon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

1.0

horrible book - extremely boring, no real plot, long unimportant descriptions and uninteresting details. i'm very angry and very disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Medical content, Pregnancy, and Alcohol