Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus

7 reviews

kiddocut's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.25

I feel like the main twist is obvious but there is more to it than a surface idea of said twist. It’s a good idea but falls flat in it’s ability to deliver. With a weak love triangle in the mix too-makes the lead and her friends kind of insufferable in a book that’s explicitly about the conflicts of POW and torture. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Gore, Violence, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Death of parent, Cursing, Medical trauma, Addiction, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Body horror, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

A lot of mention of the idea of hurting animals? It’s not actually happening but the idea is there? (Plot reasons-it makes sense). Heavy mentions of political acts of violence during the Bush Administration.

trippyotter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

OH. MY. The ending?! It'd make Stephen King proud. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Torture, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Death of parent

ninanesseth's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Grief, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Cancer, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Murder, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

kritika's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

2.0

Not a bad book but not at all for me! This book was not what I signed up for at all, and the ending seemed like it wanted to pile on traumatic thing on top of traumatic thing until it all seemed meaningless and needlessly dark for the sake of shock value. The whole point of the book is that humans are monsters and will use any excuse to justify their terrible actions, but in the end when someone finally tries to do something right, it backfires and causes more pain.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death of parent, and Violence

wraithofbooksandbones's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, and Violence

sydneysargentsuperfan's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

2.25

If you want to read about a girl and her best friend graphically beating the shit out of an alien that

turns out to be her father that was injured in an experimental medical treatment

then this book is for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug use

ne0n_ange1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Cursing