Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror by Shane Hawk

5 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

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

readerette's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.5

There's a decent peek into some aspects of indigenous/Native culture in these stories, and they're incredibly short, so even the ones that don't speak to a given reader will go quickly. No happy endings here. Some classic horror vibes for sure. My favorite was the werewolf story.

The writing is a little distracting in some of them: no variety in sentence lengths, or a "tell don't show" method of exposition, or characters who don't make sense in the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, and Violence

Minor: Racial slurs, Infidelity, and War

notthatlibrarian's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

madarauchiha's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

I wanted to love this. I kinda just liked it instead, with mild hate to 'wounded' for tactless use of csa plot points. I felt at times the writing was a little weak, but when it was good, it dunks your brain into creepy crawly juice. This was fairly heavy on traumatic topics and gross out horror, which I'm not personally keen on. All the same I'd rec this if you want some good indigenous horror.

It was certainly a creepy, freaky, gross, terrifying assortment of tales. My fave was 'Imitate' because I adore a good Changeling story.

◆ Soilborne
minor child death, 
medium body horror, 

◆ Wounded
medium child death, kidnapping, grief, suicide attempt, drug abuse, rape, sexual abuse, pedophilia, csa, blood, religion, gore, unsanitary, 
major alcohol use, underage drinking, 

◆ Orange
medium car crash, death, pregnancy, 
major alcoholism 

◆ Imitate
minor drug use, infidelity, 
major body horror, colonization, anti indigenous racism, gore, body horror, animal death, vomit, gore, death, child death, gun violence, 

◆ Dead America
minor suicide, 
major spiders, body horror, insect horror, unreality, 

◆ Transfigured
major body horror, gore, murder, car crashes, cannibalism, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism, Body horror, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, and Vomit

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child death, Drug use, and Infidelity