Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Night's Edge by Liz Kerin

7 reviews

anothergirlanotherbook's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Abandonment, Addiction, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

aparker89's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Medical trauma, Grief, Outing, Mental illness, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Stalking, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Drug use, Alcohol, Death, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Death of parent, Violence, and Self harm

Minor: Religious bigotry

grey_jayne's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

Night's Edge is really cool, set in a parallel present day where safety from vampires is a daily concern and built into the society. The narrative alternates between 2010 (where vampire events skew the timeline to different than ours) and Now. And this makes the book sci-fi, even though most of the story is as human as you can get, a lesbian coming of age story when Mia was 10 and 23. I'd love a movie, a book sequel, whatever to get more time with Mia, she's such a great character.

I do want to bring up that it's 2023 and naming voices "male" or "female" is so dated. It happens several times and really took me out of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Self harm, Pandemic/Epidemic, Confinement, Child abuse, Blood, and Toxic relationship

gorybmovie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, and Gun violence

alreads13's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Death

clairebonney's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Blood, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Body horror, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

nerdyprettythings's review

emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

I liked this! It was a very quick read, it's short and the tension keeps building as the past and present versions of the story unfold. The MC (Mia) in the present day reminded me a bit of Jade from My Heart is a Chainsaw. She's so lonely and just living her life is a horror story. This
should also be marked LGBT fyi! Mia gets a manic pixie dream girl gf (ironically named Jade). Mia's mom is a vampire, and since Mia's childhood has literally been sucking the life out of her. The disease is just
as much or more a family dynamics metaphor as it is an
external pressing concern. Definitely check the CWs on this, it's a really insidious toxic relationship, and being in Mia's head as she experiences every manipulation and attempt to isolate her was tough to read at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization