Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Through the Woods by E.M. Carroll

8 reviews

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Death, Animal death, and Medical trauma

yolanda_h's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

to restate what everyone else has already said, the art is beautiful. like it really popped off that hard for the conclusion??? wow. but a few of the stories were too open-ended for my liking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Animal death, Grief, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting

Minor: Alcohol and Gore

obfuscatress's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

Eerie and beautifully illustrated, this graphic anthology reads like the dark twin of a beloved bedtime story. It will leave you feeling haunted in your own home yet hungry for more. On a critical note though, the cast of main characters is decidedly monotonous.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Death of parent, Violence, and Animal death

magicschooltokoro's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Death

Come for the illustrations/artwork, quasi-retelling based off Brothers Grimm, and the creepy and foreboding atmosphere and mood. The artwork is immersive and creative (engaging text bubbles), though it reminded me of newspaper cartoons, Matilda, and Curious George. Some impactful, haunting verses, songs, refrains, also a highlight. Second and fourth stories, of a girl helping her friend con others with false medium readings and her subsequent invisible haunting seen by narrator, and the girl moving to a mansion (just married) and hears a haunting verse and finds something there. A good read for the front porch at night, watching a nearby storm or listening to the rain.

saldre's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Through the Woods is a fast read with 5 creepy short stories that take place in the woods. It's spooky, but not overly scary. The artwork is beautiful! My favorite stories are: A Lady's Hands Are Cold and The Nesting Place. I wish I had this graphic novel as a kid because I would've told theses stories at sleepovers.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Blood, Child death, and Violence

kayfacereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, and Medical content

emily_mh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

If I'm honest I was pretty underwhelmed by this. The reviews make it out that this book is super spooky and worth multiple rereads, but I personally did not see this. I wish it was creepier, and that the stories had more substance, plot, and twistiness. However, I did generally enjoy the art style. In terms of the individual stories:

Our Neighbour's House: this one went over my head. I didn't get it at all
A Lady's Hands are Cold: I really loved the colour palette for this one, but it was pretty basic
His Face So Read: too much is left unexplained here for the story to have any real impact
My Friend Janna: this was fine, it had more explanation, but the story didn't really go anywhere interesting
The Nesting Place: the most well-rounded of the stories

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Body horror, Murder, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Minor: Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Ableism, and Alcohol