Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

86 reviews

snowiceblackfruit77's review

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

tifftastic87's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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

4.5

Content Warnings: murder, violence, blood, injury description, animal death, gun violence, off page sexual assault of a minor, death of a parent, off page suicide attempt, and institutionalization

The middle book in a series is always a little hard to talk about without spoiling anything from the first book. But this installment continues to follow Jade Daniels and the small town of Proofrock. There are a lot of POV’s which felt reminiscent of ‘Salem’s Lot to me where the story is about the town and what happened there rather than one character’s experience. Which was something I really enjoyed and I think kept out the middle book curse. 

There was more brutality in this book, less waiting between killings and the twists just kept coming. The pacing was great as well, I think it just didn’t hit quite as hard as the first one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Suicide attempt

shedevls's review

dark tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

i don't have any words other than this was chef's kiss, even better than chainsaw (which surprised me at first because nothing often beats the first), and i can't WAIT to read the final one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, and Racism

Minor: Pedophilia, Self harm, and Sexual assault

aiden_mr2's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

4.5

This book surprised me. I went in expecting not to be as big as a fan due to the swapping of POVs constantly but it was not as confusing as I’d thought it’d be. Jade is the ultimate final girl and I can’t wait for her to end the curse of Indian Lake

Spoilers if you were confused:

the way I took the ending of the book is that both cinnamon and ginger were the killers they killed everyone to blame it on Jade because they blame her for the Independence Day massacre

Melanie (Hardy’s dead daughter) came back to kill the people she deemed responsible for her deaths

DMS really only killed the people in the video store but they were only dying due to the poisoned cupcakes by Ginger/Cinnamon

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Gun violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

ruronisai's review

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I enjoyed Jennifer's (jade) character development this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide

fkshg8465's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

There’s one book left to read. I think I’ll give it a go, even though this one was unimpressive to me. I’m trying to understand why so many others loved it. Maybe this is a genre I give up on after the last installment. Mostly, I am reading the last one just to finish it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

rachelha's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Murder

aislinnmcewen's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Jade can't catch a break. She even tried to change her name to change her fate--call her Jennifer now. She trudged home to Proofrock, to a world that left her behind four years ago, and tried to make a fresh start. Fate wasn't having it. 

Her homecoming is ruined by the arrival of a new slate of horrors that put her back into Slasher-freak mode, and, AGAIN, she is fighting for her life. The mother of all snowstorms has descended, there's a serial killer on the loose, and the past won't stay buried. Plus, she has to deal with super-fans now, which is strange. 

Jade was hard to relate to in the first book, but she was my favorite here. Her growth, her love, her vulnerability was magical. The slasher references were always on point. The twists and turns had me on the edge of my seat, and screaming "of course!!" when it was all  (mostly) revealed. It was quite a ride, and I am very excited to read the next installment! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

ethers_elixirs's review

dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

artemis7's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts