Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

9 reviews

ehamlett's review

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Cannibalism

ilaxaria's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Child death, Grief, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Stalking, and Cannibalism

Minor: Addiction

kyrstin_p1989's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

With a slow start, I thought I wasn’t going to enjoy this book, but a little over halfway through it started to get really interesting. I wasn’t fond of the description of the monster and his activities, as they seemed descriptive to the point of being boring. I loved the relationship between the two people in the house and how it developed throughout the book. The ending was obvious to me but I still enjoyed this horror story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Addiction, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, Torture, and Violence

dylpickles's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Child death

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Murder, Confinement, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Blood

a_dara_ble's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Without giving spoilers, this book is both scary and mysterious. I really enjoyed how it kept switching my expectations and keeping me off balance while also having some genuinely heartfelt moments. I haven't been much of a fan of the horror/scary genre, but I'd be definitely interested in reading more from this author (and look at that, she has a lot of other published works to keep my occupied).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Stalking, Child death, and Gore

Minor: Addiction

ocean_the_reader's review

challenging dark tense 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

3.5

I thought the beginning of the book was confusing, and then the twist of Leigh being dead was revealed. I also found some parts where Leigh was seeing the "rot" of the house confusing as I didn't see why it fully mattered because she didn't address it. It was interesting reading a book where the main character was dead. I thought Sarah was very sweet and I loved their friendship. And I loved the ending where it sounded like Leigh was going to wait for Sarah to pass on before sue did, so they could pass on together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

lexxie98's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Addiction, Child death, and Death

werewolvesnotswearwolves's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Grief, and Cannibalism

Minor: Ableism