Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Rouge by Mona Awad

84 reviews

risemini's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

gardens_and_dragons's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

A weird fever dream/nightmare about one woman’s decent into a cultish spa after her mother dies.  It’s weird, it has a lot of trigger warnings, but I think Mona Awad does a great job of handing the topics well, with sympathy to her characters. It’s beautiful, the prose changes with the different states of mind Belle goes through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Cannibalism and Sexual harassment

attempted matricide

refrejarator's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Holy SHIT. This had me so tense and so sad. My heart broke nearly every chapter. I was petrified of Rouge. Horrified. I felt so awfully connected to the story. The writing is flawless and poetic. Mona Awad spins terrifying fairytales into gold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

rsb12's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

jillaay_h's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

gabefiction's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

initially liked this book, the bizarre, fever dream prose that mona awad excels in is gorgeous. But it’s gotten incredibly tiresome and annoying to sit through the protagonist’s voice as the story went on. she’s also quite one-dimensional and boring, to the point where i couldn’t really care less whether she made it out of the cult or not. 

only reason i forced myself to finish this is due to people saying that the ending was a saving grace. honestly this is one of the few times that i wish a book was shorter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Emotional abuse, Racism, and Sexual harassment

deadwhiterabbit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

heather_harrison's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

5.0

This was an absolute fever dream of feminine horror, inter generational trauma, beauty standards, grief, and fairy tales. Complete with Tom Cruise, jellyfish, mannequins, dark humour, cult-ish behaviour, and general unhinged behaviours. I could not get enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

martinjen98's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief