Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

77 reviews

thehappyprince's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Chronic illness, Body horror, Mental illness, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

remimicha's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Death, Chronic illness, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, War, Violence, Body horror, and Alcohol

sarahec98's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Suicide, Chronic illness, and Death

lighterthaneyre's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

In fairness I haven't read The Fall of the House of Usher so I only picked up on about a third of the references the book was making. But I the ones I did pick up were woven cheekily in- not hidden, not thrown in your face, but with a wink and a nod as we kept talking about weird mushrooms. Completely wonderful.

I know the characters fully believe it's not Maddy speaking at the end, when she's being puppeted. I honestly think it was. And I think it makes the whole story about 50 times more horrible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Death and Murder

The body horror is about 80% animal and about 20% human. The animal is a rabbit.

rhi_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Chronic illness

Moderate: Murder and Animal death

Minor: Misogyny and War

annact's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book has it all... gender fuckery... sentient fungi...

So much fun. Imagery that will stick with me for awhile. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, War, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicide

maresuju's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Terminal illness, Gore, Blood, and War

Minor: Murder, Confinement, and Sexism

professor_jango's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Chronic illness, Medical content, Suicide, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Violence, and War

szyca's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Gore, Blood, Animal death, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Suicide