Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

4 reviews

b00murded's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicide and Child abuse

Minor: Death of parent and Cursing

pvp_niki's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Animal death, Cancer, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Gore, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit and Cursing

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Alcohol

cassie7e's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

A meditative, interminable metaphor for grief and complicated father-son relationships. (Blurb claims "scientifically accurate" - I forgive all my thoughts of "how is he not dead yet" on the basis of being metaphor.) 

Warnings:
- Emphasis on "interminable" - if you're looking for a plot heavy thriller, this is not for you. Even for me it dragged on.
- Nonlinear timeline, mimics memories bubbling up. I love this style but it's polarizing.
- Many graphic descriptions of injury and slogging through slow confused obstinate thoughts.

The acknowledgement of covid in 2021-onward parts of the timeline was startling (how long until it isn't anymore?) but it's merely part of the setting, not part of the story at least.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Animal death, Body horror, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Suicide, Cancer, Confinement, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

tasnim_2000's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Cursing, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Animal death

Moderate: Cancer