Reviews tagging 'Death'

Alice by Christina Henry

78 reviews

chloeam3103's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Torture, Blood, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Classism, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Slavery, Murder, Trafficking, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Gore, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Genocide

lexkazokas's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence and Rape

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

seapotatohowisitalrtaken's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Violence, Confinement, Blood, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Body horror

jkandert2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexual harassment

amiime's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It's amazing! It's one of the best books I've read in a long time but

the ending let me down a little bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Gore, Cannibalism, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Death and Rape

jabioks55's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

4.0

Rough! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Gore, Slavery, Trafficking, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

erinreadstoomuch's review

3.75

A quick read, but loved the dark take on the OG story and ability to “adultify” the characters in a way that created more depth. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gun violence

Moderate: Trafficking and Rape

slavic_bookworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexual assault, Drug use, Trafficking, Gore, Blood, Terminal illness, Death, Body horror, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Torture, Slavery, and Toxic relationship

kwdubz's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

What a.... honestly disappointing read. I've had this for so long and I was highly anticipating it because I loved the Lost Boys book. Maybe I overhyped it in my head, because it has been a very long time since I read that, but this was just not as good as I was expecting.

The writing was fine, just a little too... idk... straight forward? There were too many liberties taken with the plot that it felt too convenient and fast paced for the way the characters were acting and thinking. Not to mention the gratuitous use of sexual assault and violence against women as a plot point and narrative device. There's only so much I can handle.

The characters were not very developed. It felt like a lot of telling was happening rather than showing. All in all they read very YA but boy howdy were the descriptions graphic.

Very bingeable, probably only took me a few hours in total to get through this. I'm not sure if I'll continue though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Blood, Body horror, Torture, Kidnapping, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, and Death

mykday's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Murder, Misogyny, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, and Emotional abuse