Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

A Queda da Casa Morta by T. Kingfisher

139 reviews

pejms's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Dysphoria, Gore, Suicide, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Minor: Transphobia and War

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Misogyny, Suicide, Animal death, Body horror, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Terminal illness, and Transphobia

throwback682's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

This is a pretty damn brilliant concept and retelling of Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher. 

It sort of provides a logical scientific explanation for the downfall of the Usher siblings and their ancestral home, but while at the same time making it even MORE creepy. 

What the author did to fill out the character of the narrator was really interesting, I liked kan a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Body horror, Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexism, Misogyny, War, and Murder

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, and Confinement

There’s hunting as well as other harm done to animals.

elinor999's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Animal death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: War and Body horror

tiny_tree's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Medical content, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, War, Terminal illness, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit, Sexism, and Suicide

mybookishdelights's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

3 stars = I liked it 

I enjoyed the writing and it was gross and spooky. I’ve never read the original so I can’t compare it. I liked the main character enough yo want to read the next one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Animal death, and Body horror

cranshrooms's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

I DEVOURED this book on a rare day off. Like an animal. And I [censored] loved it. I have loved EAP since I was 8, and this scratched an itch I didn't realize I still had. I loved how the author brought in a discussion of new pronouns, gave them valuable and compelling cultural context, and then also made it relevant to the horror!! Wow. Wow. Loved it. The writing style was very Poe meets Doyle meets 2015 Tumblr user and it was absolutely perfect. The science and horror melded perfectly. I'm going to be a freak about this book for some time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Gore, Chronic illness, Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

Minor: Terminal illness and Suicide

soggycedar's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

purplepenning's review against another edition

dark 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

4.25

Ahh, T Kingfisher, inspiring me to read out of my comfort zone and into the world of classic haunted houses, creeping dread, and

zombifying fungi

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This *just* passes my personal Doctor Who/Star Trek measuring stick of tolerable horror (i.e., I can tolerate science fantasy stories that are as unsettling as the scariest episodes of those shows as long as they're also creative, interesting, thoughtful, contain endearing characters, etc.).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Self harm, Sexism, Alcohol, Grief, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Animal death and Vomit

Body horror:

possession, zombie, undead

karthnemesis's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Animal death, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Grief, Dysphoria, Gore, and Murder