Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman

12 reviews

theneighborhoodbookwyrm's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

neolx's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

1.0

This is one of the stupidest, grossest, most offensive things I’ve ever read. It is pointless, gratuitous, and horribly written. The art is fine, but the writing is not only mediocre and awkward, but seems like it was written by AI. While Snow White may be a monster in this retelling, she is still only a girl of six and later twelve years of age, and she is constantly sexualized and demeaned (in addition to being depicted instigating sexual acts with grown men, including her father!) and don’t even get me started on the necrophilia scene. Besides this, the book was also demeaning to disabled people, describing the forest people as misshapen, stunted, greedy idiots, and overall demeaning to women in general (no woman, alone and naked in her bedroom, would ever think “if a man were in my room spying on me right now, he would be aroused by my naked body!”). I can’t believe this was allowed to be published.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Death, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs, Racism, Child death, Ableism, Incest, Gore, Body horror, Blood, Sexual content, Rape, Murder, and Child abuse

Necrophilia

disguisedposer's review against another edition

dark 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

Graphic: Cannibalism, Confinement, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Sexual content, Death, Gore, Murder, and Blood

stevie02's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Blood, Violence, Cannibalism, Death, Body horror, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Rape, Torture, Death of parent, and Excrement

Necrophilia

magoo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Sexual content, Murder, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture

Moderate: Incest

cassimiranda's review

dark fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexism, Gaslighting, Rape, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Toxic relationship

hellodiana's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Adult/minor relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Rape and Ableism

alex_4_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual violence, Blood, Sexual content, and Violence

Necrophilia

techigeekchic's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

Starting the year off with a graphic novel, wow! I’ve read a few stories from Neil Gaiman before — Good Omens and The House at the End of the Lane (with Coraline and American Gods hopefully not too far off in the future) and had no idea he made a graphic novel!! The artist did an excellent job because every spread is absolutely stunning.

I’m a sucker for fairytales and an even bigger sucker (ha) for vampires, so this felt right up my alley! It was a quick and dark read that I really enjoyed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent and Torture

ceilidhwilliams's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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