Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Carmilla: La vampira e il detective dell'occulto by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

23 reviews

rainbowrocky's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book must've blown minds in 19th century Ireland. I can see why it's a literary classic. I loved it a lot even if the characters are a bit one dimensional. It's more about the atmosphere, the looming threat of death. We know what's happening to Laura, but she hasn't the faintest idea since she's so innocent. Spoilers:

Carmilla's death was a bit of a let down. I thought we were building to something more shocking but her death was over so quickly and unceremoniously.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death, Toxic relationship, Child death, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Violence and Classism

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

starting the Carmilla routine (waking up at 1pm and drinking hot chocolate) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Terminal illness, Death, and Gore

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

sympatheticdroid's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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? Yes

Sometimes its absurdity made it absolutely hilarious, but I think overall it's more about the dark romantic undertones than the funnies. The dark romantic undertones are between this weirdo Carmilla and this really sad girl Laura, both who you can interpret in a billion different ways. There's a lot of speculating to be done while reading, and even more to be done after you're finished. The length is short, it's in the public domain and the pacing is lightning quick so there's really not much reason to avoid reading it if you're at all interested in vampires, lesbians, lesbian vampires, historical queer fiction and/or historical fiction featuring women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death

Moderate: Gaslighting and Emotional abuse

Minor: Racism and Child death

Racism is minor the same way your seemingly okay acquaintance one day walking up to you, slapping you in the face and never referencing or repeating the offense would be a minor assault. To be explicit, a handful of unnamed brown characters show up as the servants of mysterious white women characters. The description in the book and commentary of other white characters paints these brown characters as being ugly and evil, and that is all the characterization they are given. It seems to reflect the views of the author. Once that scene ends you only ever see similar characters one more time as background characters in a flashback and there's no more overt racism anywhere in the book. I honestly highly recommend this novel, but I don't want anyone to not expect the racism. Every other warning is just standard vampire stuff.

f18's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Toxic relationship

Minor: Racism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

probable hypnosis

maddramaqueen's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Ableism, Sexual harassment, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Suicide

thebiblioboo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicide, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

kanjichris's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

rhiannon814r's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

marthadude's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

How can you get better than a gothic lesbian vampire novella? Carmilla is an icon. Not quite a five because I thought the very end was a little confusing

and Carmilla should have lived

. If you’ve seen the webseries from a few years back you’ll be surprised to find so many familiar names. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

littleflowerfairy's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Murder, Blood, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Grief, Ableism, Racism, and Body horror

Minor: Injury/Injury detail