Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

26 reviews

midnightgremlin's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Vomit, Body horror, Death, and Gore

Minor: Blood, Drug use, Infidelity, and Cannibalism

hazelsnoot's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The worldbuilding was genuinely scary, but the two main characters constantly making quippy jokes got old fast. Hated all the fanfic references,  and at one point the main character talks about incest shipping which felt very unnecessary and gross. Liked Simon but wished we saw more of him as a rounded character vs just the MC's GBF.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Antisemitism, Ableism, Incest, Sexual content, and Homophobia

superiour_medium's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? No

4.5

An excellent look into multiversal cosmic horror. Kingfisher portrays the main characters Kara and Simon in a humanizing manner and writes dialog that actually reads like humans talking. The pure horror of the

Willows as a malignant force & the Eldritch things that walk amongst them hearing thoughts and having the ability to unravel people like Sturdivant

are when Kingfisher’s horror is at its best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Confinement

Most of the animal harm is related to the taxidermy in the museum, not actual animals. That being said the visual of

the Willowlight Otter impaled on Prince’s antlers

is still fairly visceral

hannanni41's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death

owlphabetical's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Medical trauma, Child death, Medical content, and Blood

Minor: Alcohol and Animal cruelty

there is cruelty to animals but they're taxidermy brought to life and it's mostly off screen

vanadiumbean's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? No

3.5

I think I prefer her romance novels. The writing style is fun, conversational and approachable, but stretches a little thin sometimes. Sometimes a humorous aside is just distracting from the stuff that's really interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Blood and Mental illness

Minor: Infidelity, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Animal death, Car accident, Child death, Confinement, and Murder

annact's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Confinement

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Gore, and Blood

Minor: Death, Child death, and Animal death

_thelitlibrarian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful lighthearted 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

3.0

3.00 stars
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TW: Body Horror, Gore, Death, Animal Death, Child Death, Blood, Drug Use, Infidelity. 
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"Does your uncle know there's a portal to Narnia in his museum?"

After a rough divorce, Kara relocates her entire life back home to help out at her uncle's museum of curiosities. While her uncle is out for surgery a hole suddenly appears out of the blue, leaving Kara to explore the unknown with the next-door barista, Simon. This hole leads to a bunker where they discover a dead body, as the two get more curious about this world, they'll soon realize that some things are better left untouched.

I would categorize this more of a fantasy and not a horror. Yes, there are some spooky moments, but this focuses on a world that links to endless possible universes. I really wanted to fall in love with the book, I really enjoyed the plot and the unique concept (hello fear of the unknown), but it was a tad repetitive and fell under common horror stereotypes (gay best friend, the main character doing dumb things). What I love about T. Kingfisher's books is the inclusion of humor in such creepy moments, this is often done with the banter between Kara and Simon. I found the ending a bit predictable, throughout the book there's constantly referencing to one of the artifacts in the museum and I instantly knew that it played a bigger picture in the story than just a museum curiosity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Body horror, Blood, Drug use, Gore, Death, Animal death, and Child death

nyssa_jo's review against another edition

dark tense 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: Body horror, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child death and Animal death

By "animal death" I mean taxidermy.