Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Nice House on the Lake Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

12 reviews

bites_of_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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? No

4.5

What a story! I absolutely was hooked from the start as each character is introduced. We meet a group of folks who are invited to stay a week at a house by a lake by their long time friend Walter. As their stay progresses they learn that Walter's motives were not at all what he'd expressed in his emails and texts. Each person now has to cope with the consequences of what is happening, both physical and mental. 

Loved the art, it was really striking at times and also gave me a sense of the claustrophobia that the characters would be feeling in the house. If you like a good horror/sci-fi story, definitely check this out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Gore, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death, Confinement, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Cursing

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Dysphoria, Animal death, and Fire/Fire injury

nonfictionfeminist's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Grief

theidlereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, War, Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Self harm

Moderate: Blood and Medical content

Minor: Drug use and Dysphoria

nerdysread's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

J’ai surkiffé franchement. Je savais que je n’allais pas être déçu avec James Tynion IV. L’histoire est super intéressante, le mystère aussi. Il y a tout un cast de persos mec queer et des persos racisés, et une meuf trans et sans que ce soit le gros truc de l’histoire (ça doit gérer la fin du monde en même temps). C’est vraiment interessantX surtout avec les différentes timeline. 

Après j’avoue que dans le passé on voit beaucoup Norah pré-transition et son dead-name aussi. Je pense c’est le truc qui m’a vraiment fait tiquer, le deadname n’était pas obligatoire quand on la voyait au passé

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming and Gun violence

jazhandz's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Deadnaming, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

Minor: Self harm and Suicide attempt

In re: self harm and the suicide attempt,

A character realizes that everyone at the house has a healing factor. In order to test this, he uses a razor to cut his arms (off-panel, although his bloody arms are shown later) and then his throat (on-panel, but he cannot die and knows this).

TLDR while the acts of self harm and suicide attempt are present they’re not connected to the typical emotional baggage of those CWs.

steveatwaywords's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

After a few weaker graphic novel choices recently, Tynion's first six issues of The Nice House on the Lake> were a breath of freshly fetid air.  Part horror, part science fiction, the set up is absolutely cliched for the genre: a number of young people are gathered together at a remote house by a mysterious host who seems to be playing a strange and morbid game. Will they survive? (And many more of the conceits are borrowed from similar plots from Stephen King, M Night Shyamalan, and others.) 

After that, however, Tynion has other plans for us. The relationships are rich and convoluted, the conflicts are each personal and global, the surprises are usually genuine, and the artwork is gorgeous. Many have praised the diversity of the characters, particularly in the healthy normalizing of non-binary relationships. Mostly though, for me, I appreciated both the believability of each character and the tensions built from many ultimately respectable perspectives. What is really the question for readers: exactly what are the stakes here for each?

It is this approach to the narrative which makes the otherwise formulaic story conceit fresh and fascinating. The foreshadowing is thick, the hypotheses offered unsound, and so we worry alongside each of them in this claustrophobic utopia, wondering exactly "what the rules are."

Fortunately, Volume 2, issues 7-12, have bee published, so I will not have to wait long to find out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Moderate: Gore, Blood, Abandonment, Cursing, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

krispy_reading's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Boosted from a 4 to a 4.5 after Ashley & Bre’s live show. Plot theories were discussed in length. Made us all feel like the book had a well-developed mystery amongst great artwork. Can’t wait to see the answers revealed in volume 2.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Deadnaming

Minor: Grief

face melting, flesh melting, burning

lilacwhisker's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Beautiful. The writing and drawings were both phenomenal and kept me hooked the whole time. Even if you don’t read comics very often, you should definitely read this one!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, War, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Genocide, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Deadnaming

spooderman's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Grief, Blood, Confinement, Gore, Body horror, and Cursing

Moderate: Deadnaming and Death of parent

Minor: Outing, Bullying, and Transphobia