Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror by Shane Hawk

10 reviews

eficca33's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

"Orange" and "Soilborn" were both flash fiction and the ending GOT ME!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Cannibalism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Addiction, Car accident, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Adult/minor relationship, and Classism

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Drug use

jessereadsthings's review

dark tense fast-paced

2.0

Some really interesting ideas for short stories that were either a bit too short to be effective or started really good but did not nail the ending. Which led to this collection being just okay overall. However, this is definitely an author I want to read more from in the future. Especially, since certain parts of the author’s writing really hit for me at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Rape, Drug abuse, Body horror, Racism, Animal death, Gore, Racial slurs, and Suicide

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Blood and Animal death

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Racial slurs, Kidnapping, Violence, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, and Sexual content

aubzilla's review

challenging reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Body horror, Murder, Child death, Addiction, Drug use, Racism, Blood, Alcohol, and Cannibalism

booktribe's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

2.5

• Soilborne: ⭐️⭐️✨
• Wounded: ⭐️⭐️✨ (TW: death of a child, alcoholism, addiction, sexual assault mentioned, attempted suicide mentioned)
• Orange: ⭐️ (TW: racism)
• Imitate: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Dead America: DNF (I don’t do spiders lol)
• Transfigured: ⭐️⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide attempt and Sexual assault

bookishcori's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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 Gore

Moderate: Racism, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Mental illness

Minor: Miscarriage and Murder

lorie336's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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

This was a wonderful debut showing a variety of horror and what I truly enjoyed was the story notes on what inspired each story. The rating is due to I want more, I couldn't wait for the next one, although the first story was too short, but each one had its own personality and each story was in the POV of an indigenous person.

Have to say that the last one was kind of my favorite and reminded me of The Children of the Corn. 

Please, pick this up, it was a short, but sweet book of tales and am looking forward to more from this author.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Body horror

brokenspine's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

It's really hard to rate a collection of short stories. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

leahrosereads's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

What a fantastic collection of short fiction!  These stories were disturbing in the best possible way.   Every single one had me so intrigued and horrified, "flipping" the pages of my e-reader so freaking fast.  If I had to pick favorites, it'd be Imitate and Dead America.  Oh boy were those two just the pinnacle of creepy!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, Infidelity, and Vomit