Reviews tagging 'Death'

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

6 reviews

bookishtraveler's review

I love Gaiman but this collection of short stories just kept getting darker and darker.  I stopped at the one with child sexual violence and abuse.  I might pick it up again but it came on the heels of dnfing "Earthlings" for the same reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pedophilia, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child abuse, Excrement, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Body horror, Self harm, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Drug use, Slavery, and Trafficking

bi_n_large's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Pedophilia

Minor: Sexual content

iono's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Sexual content, Body horror, War, Death, and Murder

Minor: Incest, Rape, Misogyny, Trafficking, and Child death

naomi_k's review

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

Minor: Cannibalism, Incest, Blood, Child death, Torture, Pedophilia, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

owls_rainbow's review

There were some short stories I liked, others I detested and felt like violations of nature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Rape

Sex with non-humans

aguattery's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is a good mix of hits and misses. Some of the stories felt like shells of a story that needed to be fleshed out more. Some of the stories were too scary for my taste, some of them I just didn't get (maybe they were too deep or too subtle?). Oppositely, some of them were fantastic. I probably wouldn't read the whole thing again but I would definitely read select stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion