Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

299 reviews

twirl's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.0

The pacing felt really slow, with a lack of balance between dialogue (either none for pages and pages or monologues) and very detailed descriptions. The characters that felt cliche and hard to root for. I felt like both the narrator withholding  information and the details so heavily eluding to information made it so that nothing felt surprising.

I would instead like to recommend Wilder Girls, which had more intrigue, cooler body horror, and more elements of queerness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Murder, Alcohol, Child death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Stalking

automatic_rae's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

I never knew where the plot was going next. Confusing, intriguing, different to anything else I’ve read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Self harm, Stalking, Vomit, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Blood, Drug use, Gore, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

annamur's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Child death, and Body horror

Moderate: Bullying and Sexual assault

Minor: Self harm and Fire/Fire injury

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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

Graphic: Death, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Death of parent

danteeeh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Stalking

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Body horror, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Confinement, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic friendship

alexasolis98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book was eerie and dark. The imagery of rotting and dead things was quite descriptive. The plot dragged a bit at times. Something still felt missing by the end of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, Drug abuse, Murder, Sexual assault, Grief, Vomit, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Animal death

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.0

The focus on the decay in nature really worked for me in this book. It really upped the creep factor. I also loved the horror element. There was just this crawling feeling of creeping terror that grew inside me throughout the whole book. That being said, it was nice to have some humor every once in a while and Tyler’s character really brought that. What I didn’t need though, was the high school bullying. Obviously it’s a ya book, so high school drama is to be expected, but it just didn’t hit for me. also it has to be said that some of these characters have REMARKABLE pain tolerance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual assault, Vomit, Kidnapping, Blood, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying and Gun violence

luunacy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying

bo0ks_are_cool91's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

WHAT THE ACTUAL DUCK.

my life has been irreversibly altered holy shit
My only complaint is that this book was way too short, GIMME MOREEE
will be thinking about this for the rest of time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Blood, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Child death

lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I like weird books and I cannot lie. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Torture, Grief, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Suicide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Bullying, Drug use, Self harm, Stalking, Animal death, and Child death