Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

5 reviews

savvylit's review

I really enjoyed the feverish writing style of Hurricane Season. Run-on sentences, huge paragraphs... it all felt claustrophobic in a way that I loved. At least, at first. However, after sitting through some intense rape scenes, pedophilia, misogyny, and homophobia, I thought it couldn't get any worse. By the time a character started having elaborate fantasies involving bestiality, I had to throw the towel in and give up. The depravity of Hurricane Season simply became too much for me to bear.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Animal death, Child abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Homophobia, Misogyny, Violence, and Transphobia

ghast's review

challenging sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Blood, Murder, Pedophilia, Homophobia, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Racism

Moderate: Pregnancy and Police brutality

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Animal death

elchivovivo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A tour de fucking force. 

Each chapter is a single paragraph with little or no room for breathing.

Melchor changes narrative voices like a boxer delivers his punches. And yet, the story flows like water.

The language is pure, and i am curious to see how anyone could translate this dense, boiling, gulf- Mexican dialect into another language. Or even to see how a non-mexican spanish speaker would absorb all the local slang.

What wrenches the heart is that the story, the darkness, the characters, are all realistic (if not based on true people). It reflects the hopeless trajectory of our country, which in spite of its beauty and depth seems to be cosmically, cosmogonically thirsting for blood drawn with violence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Mental illness, Confinement, Abandonment, Murder, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Outing, Infertility, Addiction, Abortion, Rape, Cursing, Racial slurs, Deadnaming, Child death, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Gore, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Misogyny

moss_martii's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Abortion, Police brutality, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexism, Drug use, Incest, Kidnapping, Rape, and Animal cruelty

chicanodracula's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Fantastic Writing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, Transphobia, and Violence