Reviews tagging 'Death'

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

72 reviews

vulturetime's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual content and Death

Minor: Suicide

lackadaisical_ally's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Death and Alcohol

rhaase0509's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

I think this book was well written, but just wasn't my preference. The narrator seems to struggle with mental illness, creating a sense of detachment from the world around her. I did not find the story particularly engaging and I predicted each of the twists.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, and Suicide

caseythereader's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.0

 - CATHERINE HOUSE is modern gothic, dark academia deliciousness with a bit of a sci-fi twist.
- Ines is a bit of a disaster bi and I think many readers may not like her. Additionally, the plot takes its time getting going, but the imagery and atmosphere along the way was worth it for me.
- Also, so many people told me nothing happens in this book, which...did we read the same book? So much happens! There's just a lot of drunken partying inbetween plot points, which, as someone who attended a small, cultish college, feels accurate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Death, Excrement, Grief, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

reedsky's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Vomit

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

whatevertheysay's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Confinement

Moderate: Death

wallwoll's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

sunsetcity's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Take that review with a grain of salt. This book was super bizarre and I'm not sure I ever really knew what was going on, but I read through it really quickly and enjoyed my time reading it. I think the ending was super unsatisfying and way too open ended for this kind of story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

iygatac_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

3.25

This book is strange. I enjoyed Ines as a narrator because I think it really worked for the book. There's really no plot to this book and it helped me realize I'm more of a plot person but I don't mind a character book if it's interesting. Like there's kind of a plot, but that's not so much what's important. Some mysteries are left unsolved. The light sci fi in here is very light.

This book is like being underwater. It's a hazy read. Ines is an apathetic narrator but that didn't take me out of the book - I felt like we really got her mental state as we were reading. It also felt like the pacing of the book changed with Ines' mental state and how she was feeling about Catherine.

It's very strange and the ending was a little "oh, that's it?" but I'm glad I went on this strange, hazy, confused journey.

There's little interesting bits sprinkled throughout the book. It's the sort of book I think would be fun to talk about with other people who've read it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

alcohol consumption