Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

23 reviews

kaetheluise_nckl's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Abandonment, Self harm, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Murder, Body horror, and Violence

Minor: Vomit, Sexual content, Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

- suicidal ideation - emotional abuse - neglect - self-harm - depression/anxiety

emmiej's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Death of parent

spooderalec's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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, Grief, Blood, Death of parent, Self harm, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

Queer (lesbian) darkish fairytale with strong similarities to Sleeping Beauty but without the sleeping and a lot more weaving/textile arts specifically

spinning time

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laffi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Minor: Blood, Slavery, and Murder

readercasey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Mental illness, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

lunar_moths's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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? No

4.75

The best dark book I've read, lesbian romance, dark forest, mystery, magic, what more could you want.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Vomit, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

mrs_gale's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

So slow and it dragged on sadly.

I think there is a decent story in this book, an interesting idea but it just dragged on and on. It had repeating thoughts, descriptions and phrases and the story didn't progress. 

I didn't care for either main character, the supporting characters felt weak too. 

Ending was odd, I'd probably have more to say if I cared about the characters or the story. 

Lacked any real fantasy, the witch wasn't really a witch and I didn't understand how or why the romance happened. 

Overall, I wouldn't recommend as I found it boring. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Mental illness

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

gabym's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

What I wanted House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson to be

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Abandonment

cosy_armchair_reader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

Very slow, but enjoyable once you get into it. Definitely alludes to beauty and the beast, but set pre WW1 when Germany is building it's new empire. Mina is 20 year old and struggles with life as "a ghost". Walking is her escape until the witch comes back after 50 years.
A really great book but just very very slow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death

Minor: Death of parent and Self harm

nevawink's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Sexual content