Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike

8 reviews

shmayjoy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

3.0

A great book about a family's hopeful move to a thrice-spooky luxury apartment building to pass the time of a long and exhausting move back to your mom's. Some really interesting haunting themes and how quickly the building itself and its not so living inhabitants effect their small community of living victims.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Animal death, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

thegodmachine393's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Child death

emmsiej95's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense 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

4.5

A very eerie story. 
The parents of the Kano family are a complicated pair, but very realistic people, I think. I understand their reasonings behind certain thoughts and actions. 
A definite re-read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Death and Grief

uhhlexiconic's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.5

Creeping to its finale, the Graveyard Apartment is a sad descent to doom.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, and Death

Minor: Suicide

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

Despite losing momentum at the end, it is still a spooky story with an excellent setting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Infidelity, and Medical content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Classism, Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Minor: Blood and Cursing

If you are afraid of basements, this book may scare you witless.

smg's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Blood, Death, and Suicide

royalraspberry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Gore

CW for the end:

implied death of child, death of animal

sarah984's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This was a fun little B-movie type book about a family that moves into an apartment building with a few strange issues and winds up caught up in things they can't understand. Things start out slow, almost a character study, and gradually ramp up to a crescendo. Some of the scares were great but I was kind of disappointed in the end that a few major plot threads seemed to kind of fall by the wayside. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Medical content and Sexual content