Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Horrid by Katrina Leno

56 reviews

ecn's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.0

I wish there was a bit more to the ending and that the overlaps the MC had with

her sister and how she would seemingly act through her?????

had made more sense? Maybe that’s all there is to it but I wish it was a bit clearer. I also wanted more from the story overall! What happens once the story ends!? The ending also felt SUPER rushed and not fully fleshed out? Also also, it didn’t even feel like Jane herself was fully developed? She was basically just telling us about the grief between 1- feeling rage and 2- eating books. Those are seemingly her only personality traits? I wanted a bit more from her and the story on the overall/continued development. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

amberghinii's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Animal death, Death of parent, and Suicide

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Animal death and Self harm

booksofautumn's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicide attempt, Violence, Bullying, and Suicide

guessgreenleaf's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, and Death of parent

malucvm's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Death of parent, and Animal death

readingpicnic's review

2.5

It felt like nothing was happening most of the book to move the story forward, but I did really love how fucked up the ending was. Also loved the book eating as a former paper eater.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Bullying, and Death

mangela_28's review

dark mysterious

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm

anna_elizabeth's review

dark tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Child death

Moderate: Eating disorder

the_books_music_life's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.25

I think I hyped this book up a little too much and was left disappointed. I didn’t care for any of the characters and while Jane is a very complex character, she reads like an unreliable narrator and I don’t particularly enjoy that trope. 

 

The story follows Jane as she struggles with the recent loss of her father and being forced to leave everything she knew and move to her mother’s hometown, which she knows next to nothing about. 

 

Jane is a very complex character and throughout the book she goes through so much. And a lot of it could have been avoided if people around her actually talked and told the truth about things. 

 

I thought the story would/could go in 1 to 2 ways and it went in neither. The direction it took was confusing and unclear and it didn’t help anything that the ending was very rushed. 

 

If I had to describe this book in one sentence it would be “Gaslighting at it finest.” 

 

The whole ‘mystery’ of the book is dragged on forever and the pay off wasn’t that great in my opinion. The only thing I did enjoy was the depiction of grief that we get to see. Grief is never one emotion, it’s many little emotions that mix and mingle into an even biggest emotion and this book did a great job showing that and the ways Jane dealt with her grief was realistic to me. 

 

I did not care for the haunted house/ghost story element as it was very poorly done and just plain confusing. 

 

The ending of the book is done in an open ending kind of way and it didn’t work for this story. 

 

Most of the ‘side characters’ didn’t even have a point in the story, they were just there as someone for Jane to talk to or as conflict. No one had depth or meaning other than being someone Jane talked to. 

 

Overall I found this book confusing, rushed, and the ending very disappointing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gaslighting, Cursing, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, and Suicide

Graphic depictions of pica, loss of a sibling, intense depictions of anger issues, underage drinking, forced pregnancy,