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Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry

18 reviews

priscillarobock's review

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Death of parent, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Child abuse, Child death, and Violence

hexedmaiden's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

4.75

This has to be one of my favorite retellings of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. 
At the start I was worried especially when we're getting the story from an original character instead of a character from the original text, but I should know to trust Christina. Because I just loved our main character, Ben. I really loved that this character was queer on page and I personally saw him being ace too, but that's me. I also found the ending so much more satisfying than what I thought was going to happen. 

Anway, I love the way Christina Henry takes on these stories and does something truly original and unique with them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Deadnaming, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Domestic abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

typedtruths's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

sadly, not my favourite christina henry. a little flat. easily could have been a novella. i think it would have packed more of punch that way

▷ Representation: Ben (mc) is a trans man.

Blog • Trigger Warning Database • StoryGraph 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Death, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Death of parent, Pedophilia, Body horror, Grief, Murder, Child death, and Blood

➸ Trigger warnings for period typical misogyny and transphobia, misgendering and deadnaming, attempted rape of a minor, minor body horror, blood and gore depiction including the mutilation and decapitation of the murdered children's bodies, grief & loss depiction, death of a son/father from self-sacrifice recounted, death of a daughter-in-law/mother from illness recounted, and death of a grandmother and grandfather (on-page), murder.

adevilsmind's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Minor: Transphobia

sonygaystation's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

2.5

The main character gas unbearable self loathing and toxic attitudes towards being alone and expressing emotion omg someone get this child some genuine attention stat. Idea was promising but it bored me and the characterization was all over the place, especially for gramps. Also the time skip section was truly so painfully uninteresting that when I fell asleep as my book ended and I didn’t hear the last 30 min - an hour of it I didn’t replay it before just returning it to the library and calling it a wash

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Murder, Death of parent, Transphobia, Death, Blood, Grief, Child death, Animal death, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Sexual violence

Minor: Dementia, Terminal illness, Bullying, Kidnapping, and Rape

aparker89's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

My first Christina Henry novel and wow! This book packed SO much into 301 pages and I read most of them in the course of a single evening! This is a super FAST paced book, without being juvenile or leaving loose ends! The story is fully encompassing and urges you to keep going. I personally did not love the last 30ish pages BUT it did wrap up one last tendril of the story. The climax of the story is extremely well written, well thought out and not rushed through. 
I will definitely be reading more of her works!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Stalking, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Transphobia, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Classism, Misogyny, and Torture

graceev's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, and Transphobia

voilajean's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Deadnaming, Child death, Bullying, Body horror, Blood, Animal death, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

reading_ani's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

“Listen for me. I am the legend of Sleepy Hollow. I am the Horseman.“

I absolutely love, love, looooove this book! Christina Henry has once again proven why she’s one of the best storytellers or rather re-tellers of known stories. Everyone knows the story of the headless horseman, but this genius reinterpretation shines with brilliant twists and a sequel as to how the story could have possibly continued after Washington Irving’s last words were written. Our main character is Bente, aka Ben. The grandchild of the famous Brom Bones and Katrina. After years and years of peace, the headless horseman has returned to Sleepy Hollow…something dark is lurking in the woods and it’s killing children. But why now and has the headless horseman truly returned or is something/someone far more sinister hiding in the shadows? I loved the entire story throughout and though the ending was heavily foreshadowed, I still couldn’t hide a giant smile once it finally happened. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Child death, Deadnaming, and Body horror

Minor: Bullying and Fire/Fire injury

nrogers_1030's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, Bullying, Transphobia, Gore, Murder, Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, and Deadnaming

Minor: Cursing, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse