Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu

4 reviews

caramiaculpa's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

indeedithappens's review

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Body horror, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Death, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, and Physical abuse

livlamentloathe's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I’m fascinated by this world and these characters. I have so many questions!! I can’t wait for the next two books. 

I loved the art style. Some of the horror scenes reminded me of Junji Ito which was very cool. I liked the soft feeling the coloring gave—despite the ominous subject. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Body horror

Moderate: Violence, Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Pregnancy

marissasa's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This graphic novel was gorgeously, creepily illustrated and excellently, hilariously written. I loved all the witty remarks from the characters and especially the sibling banter between the two twins. The art style was very unique and stylized, and everything from the color palette to the line quality gave the story a sharpness and eerie feeling lurking beneath the recognizable and mundane city backdrop

I also loved the way that the notoriously demanding and cold Asian parenting style of the mother was paralleled with the issue of a non-human demon eater not knowing how to raise kids as humans and not rub off her "badness" onto them.

I can't wait for the rest of this trilogy to come out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Vomit, Sexual content, Self harm, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Gore, Pregnancy, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence