Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks

5 reviews

maddie_0930's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Body horror, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Child death, Violence, Animal death, Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Child abuse, Cancer, Blood, Death, Murder, Medical trauma, Cannibalism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Self harm, Mental illness, Excrement, Death of parent, and Confinement

februaries's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

?;:!?;!/! what did i Just read. this is so insanely psychological and im having trouble even putting my thoughts together about this book because ????? it’s genius and sickening and i have no doubt that some people have actually gone through this and are just as clueless as i was reading this. would have loved more depth on the characters but this was somewhat realistic already. this book was such an experience and i think it’ll never leave my mind. im in shock

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Blood, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Drug use

travelseatsreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

I'd seen The Bunker Diary on aruralreader's stories and immediately once I saw it was in first person diary format I jumped on it. Ever since picking up Adrian Mole when I was young I just can't let a book in diary format pass me.

The Bunker Diary tells the story of how 16 year old Linus is drugged, kidnapped and dumped in what appears to be an empty bunker. Throughout the story we get to see so many sides of the human personality, psychology and the struggles that are experienced within the bunker.

This book is very very dark and is full of hopelessness and violence (both to people and animals) but I could not stop listening.

There are so many interesting themes woven within the story from the obvious exploration of humanity to the subtle religious hinting throughout. Also, quite cleverly, a lot is left unsaid and unanswered so is up to your interpretation at the end. Who is the man upstairs, what happened to him? Why Linus, why this series of events?

I listened to the audiobook and while it worked perfectly I think I also would have enjoyed seeing the full diary format.

A really interesting read that left me with so many questions. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Cancer, and Terminal illness

anticapitalist_2000's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? No

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Terminal illness and Drug use

octopus_farmer's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

1.0

the more i thought about it, the more it disturbed me. Great writing though. 

Edit: this is one of the few books I read that I wish I could unread. 

Trigger warnings for mental instability, starvation, abduction, isolation, implied cannibalism

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Kidnapping, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Cannibalism