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eyebrightt's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Body horror and Death
runlaurarun's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- 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
Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Blood, and Police brutality
Minor: Child death
minimicropup's review against another edition
The characters are hard to track, we’re thrown in scenes without context.
This is an investment read where I’ll need to accept I’ll have no idea what’s going on if I take too long a break between chapters without keeping notes. I don’t care about any of the characters so all the sex, scandals, and dangerous moments are falling flat for me.
I like the peek behind closed doors into the condos. It reads short-story style that all connect in some way. I wish we had only that without the storyline in between where we are following the developer and Wet investigators.
Captures the vibes of current and a potential not-too-distant future Toronto, I think that’s my main motivation to try again later.
Moderate: Death and Sexual content
szyca's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism
vixenreader's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abandonment, and Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Racism, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol
Minor: Drug use and Terminal illness
Be aware of fungi, viscous dissolving bodies, mould, dysfunctional family relationships, some nudity, poverty, starvation, rich people being horrible, and disassociation.tacochelle's review
- 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
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Death and Classism
Minor: Drug use, Gore, Excrement, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
tigger89's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
I think the novel's biggest issues had to do with its length, as well as the number and variety of characters. What we have is a medium-length novel(350 pages) packed with a huge cast of recurring characters, as well as many more one-off characters introduced through various vignettes. This meant that I spent most of the novel struggling to remember names and who people were, constantly wondering if so-and-so was important or if we'd never hear from them again. This led to the first two thirds of the book dragging pretty hard, with my opinion somewhat soured by the time the pace picked up for the final push. At the end of the book I felt exhausted more than anything else, which isn't really the emotion you want a good horror novel to end on. I think it would have worked better either trimmed down to be shorter and snappier, or expanded to give everything more room to breathe and develop.
Does the dog die?
Graphic: Body horror and Blood
Moderate: Death, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
sarah984's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- 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
Graphic: Body horror and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Gun violence, Excrement, Vomit, Dementia, Car accident, and Sexual harassment
trippyotter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
What you'll get is so much more…
Corruption, greed, avoidance, hatred, manipulation, vengeance
All the classics that make a horror story with a unique eco-villain that feeding on psychological "trauma."
Yet, the thriller of the story is lost within the various point-of-views. I eventually lost track, but there's no less than 6 different perspectives and all of their individual interactions. Basically, dozens of people pulled into the story that might not have been needed?
But, I do have to say, I did like Cathy. She reminded me a lot of Anne Heche's character in Volcano ('97).
Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail