Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

44 reviews

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Body horror, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Classism, Colonisation, and Blood

Minor: Grief, Homophobia, and Murder

gondorgirl's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Blood, Body horror, Death, Grief, Car accident, Confinement, and Racism

sammy_nor's review against another edition

3.25

i liked the book, but i also found the writing confusing at times. i hadn’t a clue what was going on half the time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Vomit, and Gore

Moderate: Car accident, Slavery, and Colonisation

Minor: Homophobia

heatherinthenether's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

This is a delightfully unsettling thriller that explores family and love, societal expectations, culture and history, colonization and generational trauma. It's a powerful and truly haunting story that stays with you long after you finish the book. For anyone with a bug phobia, this is not the book for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, and Biphobia

Moderate: Death, Alcoholism, Blood, Colonisation, and Confinement

Minor: Animal cruelty, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Car accident, and Animal death

adragoninspace's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death of parent, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Blood

belava's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism, Car accident, and Alcohol

wellreadandhalfdead's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Violence, Homophobia, and Child abuse

Moderate: Car accident and Alcoholism

emilunax's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Blood, Colonisation, Abandonment, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

_teoeo's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Racism and colonialism as very important topics! But the writing was confusing (it felt like it jumped between actions and thought instead of flowing, yk?) and overall I would rate it as an "okay" read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Colonisation, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident

carolined314's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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

3.75

Food and love and ghosts and control all intertwine in this book, which I found almost revolting and yet fascinating. The main character's queer journey kept me grounded even as the situation got worse and worse and then... wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Colonisation, and Body horror

Moderate: Cannibalism, Dysphoria, Abandonment, Classism, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, and Car accident

Minor: Addiction