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Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

6 reviews

gnarlyrae's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Pedophilia, and Suicide attempt

ghost_story's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia, Self harm, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

saint_eleanor's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Okay i love stephen graham jones with all my heart but this book was sooo hard to read. There are so many characters to keep track of and so many different time jumps and stuff but all in all i f*cking love how he writes you have to work so hard. The only thing that pisses me off is i have so many questions still like

why did theo mondragon go on the rampage in the first book? Why did cinn kill ginger? Who really was dm south?? Is stacey graves gonna come back??

but we are still waiting on a third. 

[@canine_gambling on ig if u wanna discuss]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual harassment

jayjm94's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

As perfect a book as I’ve ever read. It had everything: horror references, incredibly adept women, strange teenagers, a small town on the water, a snowstorm, and some light supernatural content. an absolute gem by SGJ, almost certainly my best book of the year (close 2nd being my heart is a chainsaw) cannot wait for the 3rd!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Sexual assault, Car accident, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

sofipitch's review

dark slow-paced

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

3.5

I'm so disappointed to say this one was just meh. Because I ADORED My Heart is a Chainsaw. The best part of Chainsaw to me is Jade's perspective, it scratched a very specific itch for me, the unreliable narrator, obsessive focus on what the character loves, disregarding a lot else, the way in her essays it Mr. Homes it feels like she is lecturing at you, telling you about slashers with an infectious enthusiasm (I love horror but slashers really aren't my thing). Also Chainsaw all came together at the end in a very perfect way. Which all that is what Reaper was missing. The multiple POVs didn't add much, in fact to me it felt like it lessened my emotional investment, rather than heightening it. There were too many ppl to keep track of, I didn't reread Chainsaw which was maybe a mistake. I'm not the best at remembering names and some of the characters Reaper brought to the forefront I couldn't remember from book 1, and then they still failed to make an impact. I didn't count but we had at least ten POVs which for a 450 page book is too many. Also the "it all comes together at the end" didn't feel as strong or emotionally impactful in this book. Dark Mill South as a slasher is actually the kind of slasher that idgaf about, some brick wall who just loves killing. The thing with Cinnamon was also eh, the stag was the only one I really liked and delivered the way I think it was supposed to. So a lot of this is all my opinion, I've tried to make that clear bc like I said I'm not a slasher girl so slasher fans might still love this, but since this is a sequel, I don't think it lived up to the expectations of the first book. The first book still had enough of an impact for me to likely read the third when it comes out.

Second reading review: While having just read Chainsaw helped with the characters the multiple povs still hurts the book, slows momentum, etc. Showing what someone was doing before they are gored is how slasher movies operate but I think SGJ wants to flesh out his characters maybe too much.
Still looking forward to the finale though!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Sexual harassment

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Trafficking, Colonisation, and Classism

PTSD, privacy invasion, mention of animal torture, s slur, MO lynching, MO Dakota 38, MO residential schools, drowning, car accident.