Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

16 reviews

sarah984's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad slow-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

3.0

This is a collection of short stories about incidents in the life of one character on a reservation in Maine throughout his life. Some of the stories were better than others (the stories about the friends messing around kind of blended together for me, but the titular story was incredible) and they're told out of chronological order for a reason I couldn't really grasp aside from putting the best story at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Dementia, Medical content, Mental illness, and Racism

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

sidneyreads_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, Colonisation, and Abandonment

Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Minor: Blood, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Child death, and Classism

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Dementia, Drug use, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia and Ableism

internationalreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

taylorjayne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Violence, Addiction, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Car accident

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Vomit, Terminal illness, Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Medical content, Dementia, Classism, Blood, Cursing, and Animal death

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Morgan Talty’s debut collection is enchanting, with stories that follow the same people and the same places amidst shifts in role and experience along a nonlinear timeline.  On a Penobscot reservation, a young boy gradually grows up, his perspective countered in other stories by that of himself in early adulthood.  Talty’s stories are made of connection and play, survival and addiction, softness, danger.  They explore that which is inherited, that which is inevitable, that which can be changed, that which cannot.  They are often humorous and often sad, and they are brimming with life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction

Moderate: Racism, Pregnancy, Grief, Dementia, Death, Child death, Car accident, Alcoholism, Violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death of parent, Blood, Alcohol, and Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Vomit