Reviews tagging 'Death'

Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill

9 reviews

lancemama's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Cancer, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Body horror, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Murder, Xenophobia, and Grief

biobeetle's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Violence, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, Racism, and Child death

delaneybull's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

With the hard exception of Aloft I found the worlds really engaging and the characters interesting and complex. Loaded was A LOT and definitely the one that lingers for me. Short story is a good format for Joe Hill.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Confinement, Violence, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Misogyny, Gun violence, Grief, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death of parent, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Grief, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Car accident, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Child death, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, War, Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

kris_t97's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Interesting and scary set of short stories. Each stood out on their own, and most felt eerie real like the potential for it to happen wasn't impossible. This added to the horror factor.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Gore, and Police brutality

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Lesbophobia, Dementia, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Stalking, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, and Suicide

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Addiction and Car accident

socialpsysteph's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

This is a collection for four novellas. I have learned I'm usually not a fan of short stories, but novellas are a sweet spot for me. I love the fast-paced rush of a novella, especially with horror. Of these stories, Rain was probably my favorite - this was a climate sci-fi horror where it starts to rain crystal needles and chaos ensues. This novella was basically perfect, totally didn't see the twists and turns coming. Both Snapshot and Aloft were fun and very different. They were creepy, eerie, and so much fun. Then there was Loaded. To me, this was not the type of horror I like; this was too realistic (this could, and has, happened) and it made me sad and anxious. Now, it was fantastically written, just not what I was looking for right now. Plenty of content warnings on this one!

This book counts for Popsugar 2021 for a book seen on someone else's shelf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Islamophobia, Infidelity, Death, and Child death

alyson's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

snapshot - 2.5/5
loaded - 5/5
aloft - 3.5/5
rain - didn’t finish 

loaded was so phenomenal it ruined the rest of the book for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Gun violence, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Dementia, and Excrement

rosita's review against another edition

I read Snapshot and Aloft and was pretty neutral to them. They weren't either of them, particularly good or scary... until I got to Loaded. Loaded Is beyond horrifying, and after I finished it I was literally shivering and I had nightmares for days after. It is very realistic, unlike the others, loaded has no fantasy elements to it, and that is what makes it scary.
I like horror books, but this was too much. I could not finish it, I would have been torturing myself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Racism, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Islamophobia