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toniboni's review
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Body horror
gondorgirl's review
5.0
Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Mental illness, Body horror, Infidelity, and Sexual content
inlibrisveritas's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
These stories were not quite what I had in mind when I sat down with the audio, but it was a fantastic read regardless. Some stories stuck a little better than others, but I liked the variety of ages of the MC's and the differing types of horror.
Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, Body horror, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship
alsoapples's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, and Body horror
yinflower's review
- 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? Yes
4.75
Minor: Body horror, Fatphobia, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Vomit, Homophobia, and Animal death
rorikae's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Toxic friendship and Body horror
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Gore, Animal death, and Homophobia
bookishsapphicshay's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Animal death, Body horror, and Child abuse
Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Medical trauma
honeyvoiced's review
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.25
favourite: fiddler, fool, pair
Graphic: Body horror, Animal cruelty, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Medical content, Gore, Murder, Pregnancy, and Eating disorder
Minor: Vomit and Suicide attempt
ceallaighsbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
“In the night, dead fish had floated to the surface of the lake. There must have been hundreds of them, all drifting near the shoreline. Their bodies lying together, intimately, flank to flank, open eye against open eye. The waves brought them toward us in a scum of silver corpses… We watched the fish wash in, hesitating like driftwood in the shallows, inching farther and farther up the beach. Each wave slid flesh against flesh, bringing them together and apart in little sighs, only to spit a couple soft, silvery bodies onto the sand, and drag the rest back without them. "Look at that," my grandmother said, and I nodded. It looked like nothing I had words for, like the end of the world.” — from “Algal Bloom”
“Dorothy has never dreamed the colors of the Viper-King. The inside of its mouth is pink, bodily, more fearsome than if it had been red. Animals in fairy tales have red maws, like shed blood. Wolves that eat up children, and dragons that rise from caverns, these things are red all the way down. They hardly have organs, or stomachs, or throats. Real animals have these things, have intestines and kidneys and fat. Real animals have mouths of infected pink.” —from “The Viper King”
"’Listen,’ I repeated, and pointed up toward the sky, though we could see nothing there yet. ‘The crows are coming.’ And they were.” — from “Fruiting Bodies”
- WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS, by Helen Oyeyemi
- THE WOMAN WHO BORROWED MEMORIES, by Tove Jansson
- SALT SLOW, and OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA, by Julia Armfield
- DARK TALES, by Shirley Jackson
- HAG: FORGOTTEN FOLKTALES RETOLD, edited by Carolyn Larrington
- HITTING A STRAIGHT LICK WITH A CROOKED STICK, by Zora Neale Hurston
- THE GOOD PEOPLE, by Hannah Kent
- WHITE IS FOR WITCHING, by Helen Oyeyemi
- THE SEED KEEPERS, or OLIGARCHY, by Scarlett Thomas
- IN THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS, by Laird Hunt
- SHARP OBJECTS, by Gillian Flynn
- EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES, by Heather Fawcett—TBR
Graphic: Body horror, Addiction, Animal death, Cancer, and Child abuse
jessereadsthings's review
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, and Death