Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

9 reviews

coffeesaurusrex's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Ableism

caprivoyant's review against another edition

The book was fine, I guess. It just has one of my least favorite (read: most dangerous) tropes I know of —

disabled person is magically not disabled at the end. That's the only happily-ever-after option when someone has a disability, right?! *cue sarcastic confetti*

🙄

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

anni_swanilda's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Suicide

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

It took me a bit to get into the swing of this book, but I did like it the farther along it went.

Bee was my favorite character.

Glad she got her justice and knifed Levi, an abusive ass.

All in all, a good and interesting read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide

Moderate: Ableism, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, and Mass/school shootings

ashyq's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Ableism

Minor: Suicide

lawralthelibrarian's review

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Toxic relationship

gm_vak's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Violence, Ableism, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Torture, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, and Medical trauma

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

The History of Wild Places gave me Twin Peaks meets The Sun Down Motel and Tana French. Not my favourite, I thought there would be more flashes through time. Instead, this book mostly focused on the setting of Pastoral. But even the purpose of focusing so much on a setting, such as building a sense of dread, or even giving us time to connect with the characters and community, were missing. If you enjoy cultish elements and slow burn plot-focused books, then this is for you!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Ableism, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

krys_kilz's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

The first 100 pages of this book were so slow and drawn out. This coupled with the redundant and excessive description made it difficult for me to get into the story. 

About halfway into the book, things began to pick up and there were a lot of surprising twists and turns. The commentary on Levi's violence and how the entire community was responsible for it reminded me a little of Hannah Arendt's analysis of authoritarianism and power.

Overall, the book wasn't as exciting as I hoped it would be from the description. I think pared down, it would have made for a much more compelling book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy and Alcoholism

Minor: Gun violence