Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

154 reviews

kellyofcali's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.75

A good horror novel - a bit more brutal and gruesome than expected, but I moved through it quickly, pushed on my growing tension and uncertainty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Violence, Child death, Death, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Homophobia, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Animal death

muireebrown's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This book was an existential thriller with compelling characters, themes, and plot points. Even though it’s a pretty hopeless story, I enjoyed it quite a bit. If you read this after watching the movie adaptation like I did, you will still find a lot of interesting moments. There are a few moments where the shifting perspectives and tenses feel a bit odd, but overall I enjoyed the writing style of this story. One of the best books I’ve read this year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Hate crime, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Violence, Death, and Child death

shay_starlessxsea's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

Re-read. Really enjoyed the first half of the book, but lost momentum in the 2nd half. Felt like the author built up all of the tension and then didn't really know what to do with it so settled on the most 'horrific' thing they could think of for shock value. I did enjoy split viewpoints and unreliable narrators.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Homophobia, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Death, and Confinement

pkc's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I went into this looking for spooks and tension. While I found an embarrassment of tense riches, I didn’t get spooks so much as existential philosophical horror. Brutal, bloody, barbaric and sad, this was maybe too much for me, purely because of the questions raised and feelings produced. I enjoyed it overall and the middle was so strong, but by the end I wanted it to finish. My misgivings are driven by my own tastes - otherwise, really enjoyable and I see why people love this so much!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Violence

jessy4550's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

5.0

I liked the book, but I do wish the ending was a little longer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Violence, Child death, Self harm, Death, Gaslighting, and Gore

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, Physical abuse, Suicide, Kidnapping, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

di_the_reader's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Child death, Vomit, and Gun violence

spinesofsam's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Death, and Violence

eggplantia5's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I did not watch the movie, but I did see the movie trailers.
I was curious about this book well before the movie, as there was a fair amount of controversy around the ending when it first came out. 

I think it was a little hard for me to get through at times because the writing was a little stilted. The differing perspectives were fine, although with relatively few characters, I feel like we could have gotten some more perspective from all the strangers. 

A tense and creepy book - not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I think I probably would not have finished it had I not been so curious about the debate around the ending.

Spoiler

The ending is definitely ambiguous but I feel like the 4 strangers were telling the truth, and that the world was ending. What was conveyed through the book, sure, was self-reported, but that is all the evidence we have - we don't have any evidence that they did confabulate a bizarre story. We don't have evidence that they knew each other or were somehow set up in an elaborate scheme. There is no specific reason why this family was targeted. The potential coincidence of the one guy potentially being the one to beat up one of the dads was not 100% confirmed, in my opinion.

Borrowed from library, probably won't re-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Death

heartachesbi's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Death, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Vomit, Torture, and Excrement

jackbifrost's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Homophobia, Violence, Grief, Hate crime, Blood, Suicide, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Suicidal thoughts