Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

95 reviews

keatonmarie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Torture, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

pbandjane_library's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Violence

fortmeines's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I had a mostly good time reading this book. I was invested in the story and wanted to know where it was going. I loved the premise and I initially loved the characters, but the quality did fall off towards the end.

I thought it was a great way of showing the depravity of humans and the lengths they will go to when they feel trapped and scared. 

Minus points for:

• The author's weird boob/nipple and sexual assault obsession
• The author's inability to write decent female characters with actual personalities that are not all about the men in their lives
• Personal thing, but the
  main character's clear preference for his straight son over his gay one
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• The synopsis was kinda misleading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

kaymisey's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

The plot and rules of the haunting/curse were hard to follow at times, but the book was 10/10 in spooky atmosphere. There was some dialogue that made the book more silly and took me out of the mood; I'm not sure if it was written that way or it was a translator issue. 

All in all, it was a good pick for October book club

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Islamophobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, and Racial slurs

Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Xenophobia

jmkendall0218's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

sbjuliana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Animal death, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Blood

itspanicszn's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

It was…fine? I thought it would be scary but it fell flat on that front for me. I’m willing to give some benefit of the doubt because it is translated and translation can make or break a book but….this wasn’t it. I’ll never really understand why SA and animal abuse/cruelty is such a prominent part of the horror genre but it’s so pointless to me and does nothing but twist my stomach and make me want to stop reading. *ESPECIALLY* when those two things don’t impact the characters in any meaningful way. It’s just gratuitous cruelty that serves no purpose at that point. Overall it was an interesting plot line but the execution wasn’t there for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

davisota2018's review against another edition

sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Islamophobia

Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

ifeanart's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Grief, and Suicide attempt