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braincircus's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Incest and Sexual assault
Minor: Child death and Cannibalism
starkj80's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Racism, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Death, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting
Minor: Incest
honeybeewitched87's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Cannibalism
cheesy_reads's review against another edition
5.0
This was so perfectly dark and mysterious. I loved the setting and not being able to quite put my finger on what was happening. Once it was all revealed my jaw DROPPED.
The first half of the book is a little slow moving but once I got the the halfway point I genuinely couldn’t put it down. The reveals just got more and more insane and I ate it up!
I love how it ended and I will DEFINITELY be reading more books by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Moderate: Death, Incest, Sexual assault, Violence, and Cannibalism
urmomloveselrond's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Cannibalism
Moderate: Rape
tkhz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
The beginning of the book was intriguing and I enjoyed the atmosphere being created, but it began to drag about halfway through. I was becoming frustrated with
I would also not recommend this to anyone who is not comfortable with reading scenes of sexual assault. It was listed as a moderate content warning but the topic is brought up relatively frequently and is described graphically a few times. I did not expect it to play such a large role in the plot. I would also add that body horror is described very vividly.
Overall, I wanted to like this as it seemed up my alley, but the plot and characters really fell short.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Colonisation
bookscatcoffee's review against another edition
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic
musingsofmocha's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Incest, and Cannibalism
nahret's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
See, the unseen horrors can usually be one of two: natural phenomena, often orchestrated by a very human villain, or supernatural entities of some sort. I think my gripe with the book is that it went in one direction when I would have preferred the other, which is obviously a me problem. I also found the solution - once we knew what we were dealing with - very obvious, but it took the characters a whole two chapters to figure it out.
The pacing was a bit odd; it durdles in the middle, when the setup could probably have been swifter, only to rush through to the end. I can say that I did find the resolution very satisfying, especially since the characters finally did what I had been telling them to do for some 70 pages or so.
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Blood, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism
sercem_w_ksiazkach's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation
Minor: Cannibalism