Reviews tagging 'Violence'

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

63 reviews

ee_comins's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Police brutality, Blood, Gore, and Medical content

lunarpancakes's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? No

3.5

I enjoyed ‘salem’s Lot overall! There were a few things that kept me from loving it loving it, y’know? 

I didn’t like that it came down to a few dudes taking on the vampires — I wish the heroes were a bit more diverse. 

I feel like my qualm with Barlow is similar to my qualms with Sauron. He is this looming evil figure who we don’t get to see all that much. I understand why we only see Barlow for a limited amount of time (the clock is ticking, after all, and Barlow was wise to lay low until he did), I just think the kind of villains I prefer are ones who are formidable, immovable, and incredibly involved with the story. My perfect villain is Annie Wilkes, IMO. So Barlow didn’t freak me out as much. He’s cruel, just not constantly in the picture.

Also — and I understand that this has to do with personal taste — I didn’t really care about all of the residents of the Lot. The little details and the named characters who hardly made appearances were hard to keep up with.

Either way, I enjoyed the twists and turns :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, and Sexual violence

vincef's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, and Gun violence

jdhauk's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, and Child death

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Sexual content

luciagr5's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

Minor: Sexism, Homophobia, and Transphobia

mxpringle's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Torture, Murder, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Death of parent, Violence, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

namirasrot's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

King is King - the atmosphere is excellent and character writing is great as you’d expect. Points lost because this may be the worst vampire writing I’ve ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, and Gore

polargare's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Rape, Violence, Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Blood, and Death of parent

erafact's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Racial slurs, Car accident, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Cannibalism

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Excrement, Stalking, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

Set in a rural area in the 70's, lots of slurs thrown around. A man catches his wife cheating, then beats her and rapes her over the next couple (?) Weeks. Several children die. A dog is killed but not graphically, we just find its body.

risemini's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Death, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Grief, and Violence