Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Странный дом by Uketsu

31 reviews

jayden_chancery's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Trafficking, Death of parent

Minor: War

victorsbookshelf's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Self harm, Suicide, Murder

Moderate: Incest, Abortion, Pregnancy

reimee's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Super captivating, I loved how it was purely dialogue, being told a story through a reading a story. 
You constantly are left wondering would could possibly be unveiled next, who has dark secrets and who you can trust.
The use of the floor plan's  throughout the book felt like you could invision yourself in the house and fall into the "day dream" of Kurihara's theories.

A thrilling story about family legacy, betrayal, with a truly sad undertone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Incest, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Trafficking, Abortion

laramay_'s review against another edition

2.5

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Felt a bit flat compared to Strange Pictures. The characters didn’t feel as fleshed out and too much explaining/leaps to conclusions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Self harm, Suicide, Murder

Minor: Abortion

hannah_fox's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Self harm, Blood, Murder

Minor: Incest, Infidelity, Suicide, Dementia, Trafficking, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury

boglord's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Self harm, Suicide, Trafficking, Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting

Minor: Blood, Dementia, Car accident, Abortion

murderlesscrow's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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A solid and fun one sitting read! I already enjoy architecture and concepts of architecture that can make a place feel uneasy or haunting (i.e. the haunting of hill house) so that was why I picked up this book initially. Generally this book is a quick read based upon the mostly play-by-play dialogue and the snappy plot you could get through this in one sitting like I did pretty easily.

One downside I felt in the novel (spoilers ahead)

that to some degree one does have to suspect their disbelief as the two main 'detectives' basically guess a good portion of exactly what happened in the house to begin with. I felt this was a little on the nose for exactly what they were trying to predict here as they had little to go on besides architecture plans but a book has to start somehow.

A highlight was definetly seeing all the architectural plans and the family trees throughout the novel and it did help keep things straight as though you were guessing alongside the protagonists. A fun read and would recommend for a quick thriller.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Incest, Physical abuse, Self harm, Murder, Pregnancy

Moderate: Gore, Violence

kristinurb's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Incest, Self harm

Minor: Alcohol

blueviolin's review against another edition

3.5

mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide

Minor: Murder

berrybushel's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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The setup is intriguing and the use of diagrams and blueprints throughout to illustrate deductions is really fun. My main problem is it feels like the deductions sometimes come from thin air. Characters will make a huge leap in logic with little to no evidence, and the book will then continue on like they have established a fact. The first half is a fun mystery that I quite enjoyed (especially when I was able to piece something together before the characters) but the latter half kind of fizzles out. The pacing is lightning fast, not allowing a lot of empty space that I feel mystery novels often need. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Self harm, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail