Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

84 reviews

mo345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

the weirdest and creepiest book i’ve ever read. i couldn’t put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Vomit, Murder, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gun violence, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, and Stalking

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Adult/minor relationship, and Self harm

a_libra_library's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved everything about this story! It was eerie, I was on edge the entire time. I loved how obsessed these sisters were with each other. This opened me to the YA horror genre! I loved every moment!  

changeling ?!? Nothing could have prepared me for that

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Vomit

thelongautumn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Death, Child death, Suicide, Murder, Kidnapping, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Bullying

fayfaybleugh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

An enjoyable read that only creeped me out after I was finished and turned the lights off. Delightfully grotesque

where the “fairyland” in question is anything but enchanting, fantastical in only how full of rot and decay it is. I also enjoyed watching the protagonist realize her perfect sister is actually a monster. 

There were some unresolved things- mostly if the changelings are “wearing” the skin of those that were killed, how was Iris able to find the bodies of the girls? Is there a reason being a changeling gives them such weird compulsion/intoxication powers? Agnes’ story felt both unexplained and unnecessary to the plot- had great potential to be a bigger character that I found lacking. Tyler Yang was also an enjoyable character with an interesting &relevant backstory, but his interaction with Iris made me uncomfortable (she is… 17). It felt like it would have been appropriate if the characters were slightly older with Iris in college instead of high school. Lastly, I know authors can’t really control the book cover (which is BEAUTIFUL) but it super bugged me that the character is brunette w/brown eyes and soft features- the opposite of how the hollow sisters are described. (Unless it isn’t one of them?)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Alcoholism, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Violence

sm_moon's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Animal death

sarah984's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

1.0

This book has a beautiful cover and an interesting premise, but the way it's written is just. Bad. Everything is over-described but using the same few words (I hope you like the word fetid if you're going to read this), plot points happen over and over (Iris and Vivi break into a place belonging to Grey and find a secret of hers three times!), and the plot is predictable. The characters are flat and uninteresting: the sisters are described in the most boring way possible, breathless at their brittle, skinny, fragile whiteness, and the other major character reads like a parody of a British person. There's this weird sexual undertone to the girls’ powers that I couldn't stand. 

There's also a really stupid scene involving a character shooting a man with a shotgun while he's holding two women and somehow both women are unharmed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Vomit, Body horror, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, and Misogyny

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Alcohol, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

carolinacortez's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

okay, that was creepy.

no se como explicar lo que acabo de leer por que estoy toda confundida, me encanto el libro eso si, ha sido uno de los pocos libros que me ha puesto la piel de gallina en varias ocasiones, en otras me hiso sentir asco, te mantiene en tensión en todooo el libro, desde la primera página hasta la última frase, quieres saber que diablos les paso a las hermanas Hollow en ese mes que desaparecieron y cuando lo descubres, oh boy, a sido una de las cosas más perturbantes que he leído (sobretodo por que involucra niños), tengo que confesar que si es un poco predecible, desde como la página 80 sabia a donde iba y más o menos como iba a terminar, pero eso no arruino para nada la lectura, seguí tensa e igual me sorprendí cuando descubres la verdad; me dieron ganas de ser una hermana Hollow tambien, me sentía parte de la hermandad, y su vínculo entre ellas, aunque a veces raro y obsesivo, también era bello y algo que podía comprender.

What if we were the monsters?

pd. que portada más hermosa la vd.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Body horror, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual assault, and Stalking

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Suicide, and Vomit

khesi's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Alcohol, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Physical abuse, Violence, and Sexism

Minor: Miscarriage, Medical content, and Bullying

moabercrombie's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Child death, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicide

bwwilhelm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Check the content warnings, and take them very seriously!

That said, this book is nothing like I expected it to be. It's a glorious, dark fairy tale.

Without giving too much detail...

All the very best villians are somewhat sympathetic.

Also, the idea that souls can get stuck after death, not just because they have unfinished business,  BUT ALSO BECAUSE SOMEONE LIVING IS UNABLE TO LET THEM GO ... just, wow. My heart hurts in the best way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit