Reviews tagging 'Death'

Hare House by Sally Hinchcliffe

9 reviews

diana_raquel's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Grief, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Blood

Moderate: Sexism, Confinement, and Gun violence

Minor: Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

enyltiak's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Incredibly atmospheric, there's a quiet, tranquil beauty of the setting enmeshed throughout the novel. The what and how and why of everything that happens is deeply intriguing and keeps you turning the page, especially as the tension ramps up in the last third of the book, but it all dissolves into... nothing? There's a climactic bang that is followed up by a sense of serenity, followed by an ominous, discordant ending note. Ultimately, there are so many unanswered questions that it feels less mysterious than unsatisfying. The main character is horrible (I do love an unreliable/unlikeable narrator) and she almost herself doesn't seem to understand her motivations, which makes it all that much trickier. I really enjoyed what there was, but it seemed like the end was missing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Blood, Mental illness, and Animal death

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, and Adult/minor relationship

ohennui's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, and Blood

piareadss's review

dark mysterious 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Animal death

Moderate: Eating disorder and Gun violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

five_rats_in_a_trenchcoat's review against another edition

dark slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Confinement and Death

Minor: Self harm, Stalking, Death of parent, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pedophilia

carolined's review

emotional slow-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

2.0

The author had a good idea and didn't really take it anywhere. Beautifully written but dull and pointless. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Car accident, and Death

Minor: Cursing, Suicide, Eating disorder, Adult/minor relationship, and Classism

the_vvitch's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

This book was ruined by the weird sexualized hatred of teenage girls, especially by a grown woman. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death

caitsidhe's review

dark mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

Hare House is a well-written and characterised Gothic set in the modern day. Our main character is a repressed, haunted woman escaping from a traumatic event. She moves to Hare House and become embroiled in the emotional difficulties of Grant and Cass, who live in the manor house.

I really liked this book. The prose fits the story well and the unnamed narrator is a great gothic protagonist - she resembles the main character in the Turn of The Screw, being an unreliable narrator with a history, repressed sexual desire, and notably a hatred of the blooming sexuality of young women. 

The tension in Hare House builds slowly through careful use of atmosphere and horrific events. Cass is a fascinating character and very accurate for a traumatised 17 year old - in equal parts charming, annoying, and disturbing, all of those filtered through the faulty interpretation of the narrator.

The ending is creepy, and it doesn't leave everything nicely wrapped up and explained.

Recommended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Animal death, Car accident, and Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Confinement, Bullying, and Misogyny

Minor: Classism, Cursing, Infertility, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Death, and Emotional abuse

rcsreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

This was one of those books where when I put it down I didn't really care enough to pick it up again. I was basically just reading it at bedtime so that it would end.
 The pace is too slow and if you're going to be an unreliable narrator at least try to trick me into liking you or caring at all about what happens to you. 
 Also, the ending was too ambiguous and left to many questions that didn't make a lot of sense.
 It was alright, I guess. Meh!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Mental illness, and Car accident

Minor: Death of parent and Death