Reviews tagging 'Death'

Family Business by Jonathan Sims

26 reviews

mistrum_crowe's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Stalking, Body horror, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Deportation, and Addiction

nebulous_cat's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Body horror, Death, Abandonment, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Police brutality, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Addiction, Stalking, Cancer, Excrement, and Mental illness

nicain's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror

bdowning81'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This rating is a challenge because I listened to the audiobook and I'd love to be able to give three separate ratings - the story was great, I enjoyed it a lot. I picked this up as a fan of The Magnus Archives and Thirteen Storeys, as I love Jonathan Sims' authorial voice and actual voice. 

I'm not 100% sure where I think this story lands within the precedent set by the others, though, because of the big negative: the narrator. She started out strong, but by halfway through the book seemed like she was phoning it in with no attention given to the meanings of the things she was reading. Every sentence, had the same, intonation structure with, entirely too many extra, auditory commas, and a question-lift, at the end? I had to pause frequently to mentally rewind what I'd just heard, visualize it as printed text, and reimagine it with the appropriate tone and emphases.

That said, the use of the "cameo" narrator is absolutely brilliant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Addiction, Death, Murder, Grief, and Blood

iamastraythought's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Mr. Sims you have done it again. Diverse in that way that isn't really mentioned, horrifying in both a soul crushing and mundane way. 

this book is like the lonely on steroids. Of course it's a separate media, but all the same.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Stalking, and Mental illness

Minor: Bullying

casdelvo's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug use, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Cursing

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore and Classism

reginacattus's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Drug use, Grief, Terminal illness, Violence, Confinement, and Death

hcneysuckle's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Torture, Violence, Grief, Body horror, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child death, Cancer, Classism, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

caitlind14's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, Gore, and Death of parent

celestria's review

dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Death