Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

142 reviews

kryzysowa_narzeczona's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Death

almostqualified's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Chronic illness and Death

Minor: War, Terminal illness, and Suicide

aubreystrawberry's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Medical content, Terminal illness, Body horror, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Grief, Animal death, Chronic illness, and Suicide

some_froggish_lad's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Body horror, War, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, and Death

affabletoaster's review

dark funny informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Well, this was a delightful and quick read! It expands on Poe’s work in the most satisfying ways, and with the wry humour and practicality that I love and look for in T. Kingfisher’s work. Easton is just the right kind of first-person narrator for this story — out of the way enough that you are immersed, but with enough of a personality that you get to sort of try it on. And in the author’s note she recommends two more books that I have now added to my TBR list (which I am clearly making no progress at shortening!) 

Took me about 2.5 hrs to read, which is shameful when you realize that I checked it out of the library twice because of my poor sitting-down-and-reading habits. Many thanks to my in-laws who watched my children while I devoured this at last!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Body horror, Animal death, and Suicide

Moderate: Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, and War

Minor: Misogyny, Grief, Gun violence, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

katewutz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

…whoa.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Terminal illness, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, and Medical content

Minor: War and Violence

hwesta's review

dark mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I don't read a lot of horror, and the handful of times I have it hasn't done much for me even when I could tell the book was otherwise well written. I had to stop reading this book two or three times because I was so unsettled and needed to step away.

Very good book, I enjoyed the characters, I enjoyed the underpinnings of the horrible things, I never want to think about mushrooms or hares again

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, and Grief

Minor: Vomit, Sexism, and War

katndrsn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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 Terminal illness

thesupermassive's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

For as short as this book was it did not feel it and I had to stretch it over a few days. Incredible what Kingfisher did with the idea of the House of Usher and how she stretched it into a beautifully written tale with a new original character at the centre

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

Moderate: War, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Animal death

thegayestghost's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical content, and Terminal illness