Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

39 reviews

kellyofcali's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

While I appreciated this post-apocalyptic tale from a First Nations author, I sometimes struggled a bit with the pacing - the action moved in spurts, and sometimes stepped into and out of dreams or through time a bit confusingly. It also almost skipped over the actual action, which was an interesting choice - not sure 100% how I felt about it. Overall though, I liked the story and the setting, and it was an easy listen (I did audiobook). Be warned, the narrator reads quite slowly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Cannibalism

Moderate: Alcohol, Violence, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, Alcoholism, and Blood

Minor: Xenophobia, Addiction, and Animal death

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Cannibalism, Blood, and Cursing

silvae's review

dark reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Alcohol, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Animal death, Blood, Suicide, and Alcoholism

erkietheturkey's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Death, Blood, and Cursing

Minor: Colonisation, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Grief, Racism, and Suicide

queersubtext's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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

Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, Alcohol, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Cannibalism

hilarylouise's review

tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, Death, and Gore

cepbreed's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

 “The world isn’t ending,” she went on. “Our world isn’t ending. It already ended. It ended when the Zhaagnaash came into our original home down south on that bay and took it from us. That was our world.” 

Holy shit. I was assigned this book as a part of my Indigenous Pop: Anticolonialism and Genre Fiction class and I never expected to love it so much. The building tension nearly had me shitting bricks. The way this book reads is perfectly timed with the rate at which the Ojibwe are also gaining more knowledge about their predicament. Sure, going into this book I knew it was apocalyptic fiction, but that never took away from the slow build of dread as the winter got colder and the electricity continued to stay shut off. I have an exactly equal amount of love and hate for the fact that the last couple chapters are so vague.

I appreciate not seeing incredibly graphic cannibalism but at the same time I would've loved to see Evan's POV again to just assure he is alive. After discussing this in class I cannot believe I was so blind to the obvious. Justin Scott is a wiindigo. He is trying to corrupt the community to his insane cause, he encouraged others to join him in cannibalism to survive the winter and became an even greater monster. This is even more scary thinking about how he followed the two boys from the city to their community, was he planning to attack and eat them? Then the man he shot, is his body actually decomposing in the snow or did he eat him?

I'm confused but totally in love with this narrative. 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cannibalism, Death, Animal death, Murder, Abandonment, Grief, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Medical content, and Violence

Minor: Suicide, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

krispy_reading's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Very atmospheric writing. Characters dealing with “dominos falling one by one” type plot. 

Wonderful storytelling. I would recommend the audiobook so you can hear the spoken native language in some dialogue scenes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Racism, Blood, Animal death, Alcohol, Suicide, and Death

Minor: Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

maregred's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Gun violence, Cannibalism, and Blood

cait's review

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Xenophobia, Murder, Racism, Blood, Animal death, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Grief, and Violence