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reading_for_pluto's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
Moderate: Child death, Death, and Grief
bexsur's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Child death
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Animal cruelty
nrogers_1030's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Child death, Alcohol, and Grief
Moderate: Classism
Minor: Animal death
leazzz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
This was so good I was genuinely freaked out
The tension and anxiety builds so well, to such a tragic ending
Graphic: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Death
laceylove's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Death and Child death
Moderate: Animal death and Grief
Minor: Vomit
owenglasgow's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Moderate: Grief and Child death
amylia_k's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Death, Child death, and Grief
echosong's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Narrated from the perspective of a future Arthur Kipps, The Woman In Black, follows him as he writes down his experience from when he was a young lawyer looking from a promotion that changed his life forever and his hope that by writing it down, he will finally exorcise the ghost haunting him. Primarily set in a small village suffering from constant intense fogs, Arthur meets, from a distance, the titular Woman In Black, when he’s sent to get a recently deceased woman’s affairs in order, the story documents what happened to him on that week.
Character wise, there is not that much character development. Other than Arthur and his deteriorating state, all the other characters are static, with the reader finding out more about them, but none of them being developed further than their initial meeting.
While I enjoyed the writing style, which I feel lends itself to a narrator of the 1800s, it is difficult to get through the first part of the story. It’s only around chapter 6 that the ghost shenanigans really start and I was at my most interested.
Graphic: Grief, Child death, and Murder
Minor: Misogyny
ggcd1981's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Terminal illness and Animal death
ceallaighsbooks's review against another edition
- 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
“And then, standing among the trunks of the fruit trees, silver-grey in the moonlight, I recalled that the way to banish an old ghost that continues its haunting is to exorcise it. Well then, mine should be exorcised. I should tell my tale, not aloud, by the fireside, not as a diversion for idle listeners—it was too solemn, and too real, for that. But I should set it down on paper, with every care and in every detail. I would write my own ghost story. Then perhaps I should finally be free of it for whatever life remained for me to enjoy.”
“Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not ‘real’. No. But what was ‘real’? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.”
“The weather might change, the wind drop, the sun shine, Eel Marsh House might stand quiet and still. It would be no less dreadful. Whoever haunted it and whatever terrible emotions still possessed them would continue to disturb and distress anyone who came near here, that I knew.”
- other Gothic & Victorian English (& Irish) ghost stories
- Laura Purcell
- Edgar Allan Poe
- THE SEANCE, by John Harwood
- THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTED, by John Boyne
Graphic: Child death, Grief, Car accident, and Death