Reviews tagging 'Death'

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

35 reviews

f18's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, and Death

Minor: Ableism and Medical content

jjjreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Classism, Death, Stalking, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Child death, Terminal illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

dustghosts's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Ableism, and Animal death

autumnrevisited's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I like how this book kinda makes you stumble in a way where you expect it to go a certain way and it keeps changing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Medical content, and Death

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.75

The creepy child vibes are strong with this one, and narrator Hillary Huber absolutely nails it.  One mother’s attempt to save her child is met with a curse, and another’s vacation is brought to a screeching halt when she wakes up dying with little memory of how she got there.  This is one of those books where you don’t really know what’s going on at first, the story gradually unfolding through its final pages.  Fever Dream has a sense of foreboding, unsettling urgency and reads like a short story.  In search of “the exact moment” everything went wrong, you won’t want to put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Terminal illness, Animal death, and Death

thebearnest's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Animal death, and Child death

clara_mai's review

4.0

 Passend zum Titel der englischen Übersetzung (ich habe die deutsche namens "Das Gift" gelesen), würde ich diesen kurzen Roman der Kategorie Fiebertraum-Horror zuordnen. Ein geniales Buch; spannend, surreal und beunruhigend. Die Nutzung von giftigen Pestiziden in Argentinien als Element des Horrors anzuwenden auch ein brillianter Zug der Autorin. Sehr gut aus dem argentinischen Spanisch ins Deutsche übersetzt von Marianne Gareis. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Animal death

Moderate: Body horror and Ableism

alexalily's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Child death, Grief, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Stalking and Animal cruelty

velvet_young's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

whimsicalish's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

The writing did a great job conveying how anxious the mother felt. What a sad experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death