Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

La maison aux pattes de poulet by GennaRose Nethercott

22 reviews

18soft_green's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

4/5

This is a good book, unfortunately.

I say it this way because a lot of the time it felt like the author was being pretentious in her flowery style and drama. The POV switches were painful and Isaac is my least favorite type of character and Bellatine is so fucking annoying! And her statue love interest is worse! Baba Yaga herself was very interesting but her great, great, great, great grandkids are the worst! In fact, it's as if Nethercotte took my least favorite types of characters, added some quirks, and dumped them into a story.

But the story is good! The grief is real, the magic is weird, the contradictions are mysterious, the walking house is fantastic! The angst, my friends! It's such good angst! Not the relationship angst, that shit was boring as hell and annoying, but the life angst, the way the characters felt about themselves, that was the true sauce.

It also felt so fucking weird that Nethercotte constantly acknowledged the atrocities of the land. Maybe that's just my privilege talking but it felt so out of place and character for the Yaga siblings. Like, this book isn't addressing those topics so why is it bringing them up. I care very much about those issues but it felt like the story was only bringing them up out of obligation and personal responsibility rather than because it was important to the story. It was awkward for me.

4/5 I would not recommend unless the situation truly called on THIS particular book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Police brutality

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and War

Minor: Animal death, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Child death, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Self harm

teaselkie's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Child death

deetabz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Animal death, Body horror, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Antisemitism, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Vomit

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

5.0

I absolutely loved this book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Gore, and Genocide

Moderate: Child death, Alcohol, Grief, and Drug use

elizabeth_lepore's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Self harm, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Antisemitism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: War, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Violence, and Grief

katievh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Child death, Antisemitism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

pins's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.75

This book took me three tries to start and I almost dropped it because of that! But the third time it got it's claws into me and I'm so glad it did. 

A story about the importance of stories, how even if our talents may be unconventional, they're still worth something and about how we can affect those around us- even after were gone. 

"Kill the lantern, Raise the Ghost" 

P.S.

I would very much like to hold both Winnie and Bellatine's hands tyvm

P.S.S. I did listen to this at 1.75x speed, and I do think this tale works MUCH better in audio format than it would written. Plus January LaVoy does a really great job doing distinctive voices

especially for a very specific house

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Religious bigotry, Genocide, and Child death

Moderate: Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, and Alcohol

victoriousbookworm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Antisemitism, War, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Abandonment

abominablesnowaro's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, Gore, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Body horror, Self harm, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

nini23's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

4.25

Thistlefoot surprised me in a good way. The descriptive writing is gorgeously evocative and I like both Isaac and Bellatine's characterization, especially Issac. The author is a folklorist and an excellent storyteller. Rather than Neil Gaiman and Naomi Novik, I would mention Erin Morgenstern and Alexandra Rowland instead as parallel writers. 
Note that the story does crescendo into a pogrom against Russian Jews after WWI, referencing a real life historical event, a remembrance ode to the ghosts and survivors.

Edited to add: the prologue section on tumbleweed is gorgeous and memorable, I suddenly thought of it out of the blue today. Actually I recall why, because desert plants were featured in episode 1 of BBC's Green Planet 28/02/2023

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Antisemitism, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Self harm