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nialiversuch's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Grief, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Sexual content and Cursing
ellenigrace's review
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, and Suicide
ladysanctuary's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
Nine chilling character driven horror stories.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Violence and Gore
Minor: Animal death, Suicide attempt, and Sexual content
waybeyondblue's review
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Maybe wasn't the best choice for someone on the tail end of a chronic illness, who has spent the last year watching in disbelief as her body deteriorates, disintegrates, and does some weird shit that can't be controlled or understood... Or maybe that made it the perfect choice, I'm not sure.
I was enthralled and repelled in equal measure; and no matter how surreal the concepts got (Sleep becoming a shadow-self; wolves becoming sisters; boyfriends turning in to stone) the stories were so anchored in reality that they seem completely believable.
Certain images and descriptions echo through the different stories, tying them together - tangerines and jellyfish and teeth and rotting food. The stories speak to the experience of living in bodies that are essentially unstable, unknowable and unreliable organic matter; and the mundane horror of accepting we are in a constant state of mutation, change and decay.
I was enthralled and repelled in equal measure; and no matter how surreal the concepts got (Sleep becoming a shadow-self; wolves becoming sisters; boyfriends turning in to stone) the stories were so anchored in reality that they seem completely believable.
Certain images and descriptions echo through the different stories, tying them together - tangerines and jellyfish and teeth and rotting food. The stories speak to the experience of living in bodies that are essentially unstable, unknowable and unreliable organic matter; and the mundane horror of accepting we are in a constant state of mutation, change and decay.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Body horror
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Pregnancy
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